Americans favored providing aid to the Cuban revolutionaries for all of the following reasons except
a. popular outrage at the Spanish use of reconcentration camps.
b a belief that Spain's control of Cuba violated the anti-colonial provisions of the Monroe Doctrine.
c. fear that Spanish misrule in Cuba menaced the Gulf of Mexico and the route to the proposed Panama Canal.
d. sympathy for Cuban patriots fighting for their freedom.
e. the atrocity stories reported in the "yellow press."
Answer: B