How were religion and foreign policy related in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in the United States?
a. Most U.S. foreign ministers were religious leaders, using their diplomatic posts for missionary access.
b. Most religious leaders believed that God had blessed the United States with riches that should be shared with the world's poor, making foreign policy mainly about charity.
c. Most religious leaders believed that God had given the United States to Christians, and they should be content and not seek more riches throughout the world.
d. Most religious leaders believed that Americans should bring Christianity to the rest of the world, so they advocated imperialist foreign policies.
e. Most religious leaders followed the "conversion by sword" example of European Christian powers in the Middle Ages, so they advocated U.S. military coups.
D
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