During the 1890s, Leaders Who Favored Economic Expansion but Not

During the 1890s, leaders who favored economic expansion but not the annexation of overseas territory

A) became more vocal and began to dominate government decision making.
B) gradually lost ground to those who advocated both formal and informal imperialism.
C) completely abandoned their position in the aftermath of the Spanish-American-Cuban-Filipino War.
D) came to be concentrated almost exclusively in the Republican party.