Select ALL the correct answers. Read the excerpt from President Woodrow Wilson's Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Germany (1917):
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.
President Woodrow Wilson
What were two purposes of this excerpt from President Wilson's speech?
to convince people that the German government was unrepresentative of its people
to change the way people viewed civilian populations
to prevent discrimination against German-Americans
to change the way the German-Americans felt about their ancestors