Which statement best describes the position of american missionaries on the country's imperialism in the late-19th and early-20th centuries?
a) imperialism should be banned because it is against the word of god.
b) imperialism should be banned because of the way natives were treated.
c) imperialism is good because it gives the natives a chance to be converted.
d) imperialism is good because it gives the natives a chance to get a good job.

the answer is

monopolies  came to the united states with the colonial administration. the large-scale public works needed to make the new world hospitable to old world immigrants required large companies to carry them out. these companies were granted exclusive contracts for these works by the colonial administrators. even after the american revolution, many of these colonial holdovers still functioned due to the contracts and land

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