Clarifying Big Ideas: Understanding Point of View, Bias, and Frame of Reference

McKinley's frame of reference was the Age of Imperialism, in which the Western European nations and the United States competed with each other for control of foreign lands, their resources, and their labor. This frame of reference led him to draw what two conclusions about the Philippines?

Choose all the correct answers.

A. It should not fall under Spanish rule.
B. Filipinos had been converted to Christianity by the Spanish.
C. The Philippines should not be independent.
D. Filipinos would be better off independent than part of Spain.