The year of the massacre at Wounded Knee, 1890, it was officially declared by the Bureau of the Census that the internal frontier was closed. The profit system, with its natural tendency for expansion, had already begun to look overseas. The severe depression that began in 1893 strengthened an idea developing with the political and financial elite of the country: that overseas markets for American goods might relieve the problem of underconsumption at home and prevent the economic crises that in the 1890s brought class war."
Howard Zinn, "A People's History of the United States, 1492-Present," 1995 Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States (New York: Harper Perennial, 1995), 290.
1.Which of the following events in the late 19th and early 20th centuries resulted from the idea described in the passage above?
a. The creation of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs
b. America's initial neutrality in World War I
c. President Wilson's support for the League of Nations
d. The acquisition of island territories by the United States