According to the chapter, why did Woodrow Wilson's administration rationalize its entry into the war as defending the rights of Americans to travel in the war zone?
Explanation
This question tests the reader's comprehension of the chapter's critical analysis of the official justifications for U.S. entry into World War I.
Other questions
According to the first sentence of Chapter 14, who is credited with the phrase, 'War is the health of the state'?
What was the total estimated death toll from hunger and disease related to World War I, as mentioned in the chapter?
According to the chapter, what event in San Francisco in the summer of 1916 led to the arrest of radicals Tom Mooney and Warren Billings?
How did the British army's height requirement for volunteers change between August and October of 1914?
What was the American government's official claim about the cargo of the Lusitania, and what does the chapter state was the reality?
According to W. E. B. Du Bois's article 'The African Roots of War,' what was the paradoxical result of 'democracy' in imperial countries like the United States?
How many men volunteered for the U.S. military in the first six weeks after the declaration of World War I, compared to the one million that were needed?
What was the purpose of the Espionage Act of 1917, despite its title?
In the Supreme Court case Schenck v. United States, what famous legal doctrine did Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes articulate to justify Schenck's conviction?
Approximately how many people were imprisoned under the Espionage Act during World War I?
What was the American Protective League, as described in Chapter 14?
What was the 'Green Corn Rebellion' of 1917?
What happened to the 165 IWW leaders arrested in September 1917 for conspiring to hinder the draft?
Who were the primary targets of the Palmer Raids in late 1919 and early 1920?
How many American soldiers died in World War I, according to the chapter?
In what year did the Socialist party vote increase to 34.7 percent in Chicago municipal elections?
What was the final outcome of the trial of the 'Catonsville Nine' for burning draft records?
Who was the first woman in the House of Representatives, and how did she vote on the declaration of war in 1917?
How much money in goods had been sold to the Allies by the United States by April 1917?
What was the Supreme Court's justification for affirming Eugene Debs's conviction under the Espionage Act?
In the film 'The Spirit of ’76,' why was the filmmaker prosecuted under the Espionage Act?
How many conscientious objectors declared themselves during World War I, and how many of them went to prison?
What was the total fine levied against the IWW leaders convicted in the mass trial of 1918?
Which writer's post-war novel '1919' is quoted to illustrate the bitterness and disillusionment that followed World War I?
What action by President Wilson prompted Henry James to write, 'The plunge of civilization into this abyss of blood and darkness...'?
How many men were tried and condemned in the French army mutinies of 1917?
What was the American Alliance for Labor and Democracy, headed by Samuel Gompers?
What was the consequence for socialist Kate Richards O'Hare for her antiwar speech in North Dakota?
What did John Reed, who covered the IWW trial, say was the common belief of the 101 defendants?
What was the final fate of anarchist leader Big Bill Haywood after his conviction in the IWW trial?
The chapter suggests the U.S. government's entry into World War I was primarily motivated by what?
What was the official death toll on the battlefield during World War I?
How did George Creel's Committee on Public Information attempt to build support for the war?
What was the Socialist Party's official position on the U.S. declaration of war, as stated at their emergency convention in St. Louis?
What was the central argument in the leaflets for which Charles Schenck was arrested and convicted?
In his speech before sentencing, what did Eugene Debs declare about his relationship with the lower classes and criminals?
How many men were ultimately classified as draft evaders during World War I?
What was the final result for the 249 aliens, including Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, picked up in the first of the Palmer Raids?
What was the final message of Sacco to his son Dante, as quoted in the chapter?
The chapter argues that U.S. entry into World War I was a response to what specific action by Germany?
What was the outcome of the Socialist party's municipal election campaigns in 1917?
The chapter describes a legal basis for prosecuting speech after it was uttered, which was known to legal experts but not the general public. What was this legal concept called?
How many soldiers from the 9th Battalion of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry were left twenty-four hours after an attack they launched?
What was the fate of Andrea Salsedo, the anarchist typesetter arrested in New York in the spring of 1920?
What did the Socialist party magazine 'The Masses' have done to it by the Post Office Department?
According to the chapter, how many mutinies occurred in the French army in 1917?
What was a key reason for J.P. Morgan and other financiers to support the Allied cause, according to the chapter?
The chapter suggests that the US government's harsh repression of dissent during WWI indicates what about public sentiment for the war?
In his final statement, one of the convicted IWW men explained his lack of patriotism by citing what experiences?
What was the final message found in the text that symbolizes the end of the chapter's narrative on World War I and its aftermath?