Why did Theodore Roosevelt send the "Great White Fleet" on a world tour between 1907 and 1909?
A) to conquer new colonial territories for the U.S.
B) to fight the Japanese effort to conquer the Philippines
C) to demonstrate that the U.S. had arrived as a world power
D) to defeat the Boxer Rebellion in Peking
E) to avenge the surprise Russian attack on U.S. forces in Manila Bay
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