How does the text structure of "Wilson's War Message to Congress" help to support his message?
Which statement best summarizes "Wilson's War Message to Congress"?
Read the excerpt from "How We Entered World War I."Nothing that Wilson said about the danger to democracy could not have been said all along. For that cause we could have gone to war six months or a year or two years earlier, with incalculable effect on history. Except for the proof of hostility in the resumed submarine campaign and the Zimmermann telegram, our cause would have been as valid, but we would then have been fighting a preventive war—to prevent a victory by German militarism with its potential danger to our way of life—not a war of no choice. Instead, we waited for the overt acts of hostility which brought the war to us...The author's word choice gives the reader a sense that
Read the paragraph from "Wilson's War Message to Congress."Gentlemen of the Congress: I have called the Congress into extraordinary session because there are serious, very serious, choices of policy to be made, and made immediately, which it was neither right nor constitutionally permissible that I should assume the responsibility of making.Wilson’s word choice in the paragraph supports the idea that
How does the author of "How We Entered World War I" organize the information in the text?
Read the excerpt from the final paragraph of "Wilson's War Message to Congress."But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts—for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments. . . The most likely purpose of including this in the last paragraph is to
Read the paragraph from "Wilson's War Message to Congress."We have no quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling towards them but one of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that their Government acted in entering this war. It was not with their previous knowledge or approval. It was a war determined upon as wars used to be determined upon in the old, unhappy days when peoples were nowhere consulted by their rulers and wars were provoked and waged in the interest of dynasties or of little groups of ambitious men who were accustomed to use their fellow men as pawns and tools.The text structure used to support the viewpoint in the paragraph is
What is the best summary of the first paragraph of "How We Entered World War I"?
What key detail in "Wilson's War Message to Congress" supports his argument for entering the war?
Read the excerpt from "How We Entered World War I."In the midst of it came the revelation of the telegram from German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmermann inviting Mexico into alliance as a belligerent. As a scheme to keep U.S. forces occupied on their own border, it offered to help Mexico regain her lost territories of Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico.The author most likely uses the word "scheme" to
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