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Why Did American Missionaries Want to "Christianize" the Philippines

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Why did American missionaries want to "Christianize" the Philippines?


A) Many American missionaries may have felt that Roman Catholicism was not a legitimate form of Christianity or that it was not being properly practiced by Filipinos.
B) Most Filipinos were not Christian, and American missionaries felt it was their obligation to convert them.
C) Most Filipinos were Christian, but American missionaries wanted to annex the Philippines for money, so they told President McKinley otherwise.
D) Although many missionaries had tried to "Christianize" the Filipinos, they resisted culturally and religiously.
E) American missionaries knew that "Christianizing" the Filipinos would make it easier to govern and control them.

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