What led to the founding of the American Anti-Imperialist League? A. the annexation of Hawaii

B. the annexation of Puerto Rico

C. the annexation of the Philippines

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D. the annexation of the Panama Canal

Founded in response to the U. S. government's annexation of the Philippines and brutal suppression of the Filipino independence movement in the aftermath of the Spanish American war (1898), the Anti-Imperialist League continued the peace activism of the abolitionists who had opposed the Mexican war of the 1840s