Read the excerpt from an informational document.
I was in the East End of London yesterday and attended a meeting of the unemployed. I listened to the wild speeches, which were just a cry for “bread, bread, bread!” and on my way home I pondered over the scene and I became more than ever convinced of the importance of imperialism. My cherished idea is a solution for the social problem, i.e., in order to save . . . the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets for the goods produced by them in the factories and mines.
—Cecil Rhodes, 1895
Which detail from the excerpt best supports the thesis that British imperialism was necessary to gain land for farming?
“acquire new lands to settle the surplus population”
“provide new markets for goods produced by them”
“which were just a cry for ‘bread, bread, bread’”
“I was in the East End of London yesterday