Answer:
The acquisition of new territories in the West
Explanation:
The only answer that would make cense for this question is c because the rest of the answers are either false or deal with ww2
I would say that Hakim calls the late 1800s an Age of Extremes because A. only extremely few people possessed significant wealth and power and B. there was an extremely large gap between the rich and the poor.
I don't think the poor were given those opportunities.
It would be ideals primarily from the Enlightenment Period in Europe that the United States derives much of its character, since this was a time in which people started to question the divine right of kings, and started to emphasize personal freedoms and liberty.
