What is the most accurate social-darwinist defense for u. s. imperialism? a) robber barons deserved new markets to sell their goods and expand their businesses. b) nations that considered themselves superior felt obliged to govern less-advanced nations. c) the united states needed to test its military strength to make any necessary improvements. d) the united states needed to compete with european nations to prove that the united states was superior.

B) Nations that considered themselves superior felt obliged to govern less-advanced nations.

Explanation:

The Social-Darwinism theory is about the survival of the fittest, about most powerful species conquering the least powerful.

In the context of this question, it is about more powerful nations taking control of the less powerful.

So the correct answer is:

B) Nations that considered themselves superior felt obliged to govern less-advanced nations.

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explanation

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we can rewrite this as:

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then the equation becomes:

the factors of 8 that sum up to -9 are {-1,-8}

we split the middle term with these factors to obtain,

we factor by grouping to obtain:

apply the zero product property to get:

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