[ 355 ] Geography and the World GED ® TEST SOCIAL STUDIES FLASH REVIEW _____________ • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Use the chart and quote to answer the following two questions. Foreign Trade of the United States (in Millions of U.S. Dollars) Year Exports Imports 1860 400 362 1870 451 462 1880 853 761 1890 910 823 1900 1,499 930 1910 1,919 1,646 1920 8,664 5,784 “The Philippines are ours forever. . . . And just beyond the Philippines are China’s illimitable [limitless] markets. We will not retreat from either. . . . We will not abandon our opportunity in the Orient. We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee under God, of the civilization of the world. The Pacific is our ocean. . . . Where shall we turn for consumers of our surplus? Geography answers the question. China is our natural customer. . . . The Philippines give us a base at the door of all the East. . . . No land in America surpasses in fertility the plains and valleys of Luzon. Rice and coffee, sugar and coconuts, hemp and tobacco. . . .” —Albert Beveridge, U.S. Senator from Indiana, January 9, 1900 Based on his comments, all of the following factors contributed to Senator Beveridge’s desire to annex the Philippines, except a. he believed in the wealth of the Philippines. b. he wanted better access to China. c. he opposed economic imperialism. d. he believed people to be less civilized.