Answer: B. was fueled in part by the need to stimulate American exports
Explanation: Until the 1890s, America was not very interested in expansion. Primarily, expansion did not agree with the republican ideas of America. Expanding into new areas and forcing American rule on them was not republican or American. However, in the 1890s, expansion into new territories was more than imposing leadership but a scramble for an export market for American products. During this decade, America sold about 25% of its agricultural products overseas.
During WWI (1914-1918), large numbers of women were recruited into jobs vacated by men who had gone to fight in the war. New jobs were also created as part of the war effort, for example in munitions factories.
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The excerpts conflict because they are completely different visions on the issue of racism and civil rights in the South of the United States.
Martin Luther King was an activist of the African Americans' civil rights and other minorities. He became a leader of the civil rights movement that supported the end of racism in states such as Alabama. On the other hand, George Wallas was the governor of the state of Alabama who was a racist and support segregation and discrimination in the state. He prohibited black people to study in white public college institutions of the time like the University of Alabama, in Tuscaloosa.