Americans who advocated annexation evinced a variety of motivations: desire for commercial opportunities in Asia, concern that the Filipinos were incapable of self-rule, and fear that if the United States did not take control of the islands, another power (such as Germany or Japan) might do so.
Where are the answer choices ?
Egyptians have a whole other scale of determining things so I would figure that it is very different.
<span>McClellan had argued that the Civil War was at worst unwinnable and at best destined to continue as a protracted stalemate that the Union would win only after a long and costly slog. This argument was disproven on September 2, 1864 when General Sherman captured the major Southern city of Atlanta. With the capture of Atlanta it was clear to all that a Union victory was not only inevitable, but was likely to come sooner rather than later.</span>
