A Group of Historians Known as the New Left Revisionists

A group of historians known as the New Left revisionists argued that the United States' burst of overseas expansion of the 1890s

A) was motivated by naive democratic idealism.
B) was necessary to maintain an international balance of power.
C) was designed to create an informal empire that would guarantee American economic dominance of foreign markets and investments.
D) sought to build a colonial political empire.
E) was motivated by racist "civilizing" to conquer and Christianize "primitive" blacks, Indians, and Latin American Spanish populations.