In his farewell address, outgoing President George Washington famously stated that, "The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies the causes of which ... the public was against direct intervention was the fact that the economy was thriving; in large part because of the profits pouring into the United States from selling and supplying...

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... Henry, in A Farewell to Arms. Henry describes the words "sacred," "glorious," and "sacrifice" as meaningless because people fail to fulfill their meanings (Document G). People didn't want to risk more American lives and money to fight a war that had nothing to do with them in the first place. President Woodrow Wilson wrote his famous Fourteen Points which were a basis for world peace. The ... approximately five million members by 1923. However, such fears stirred up American attitudes towards immigrants and immigration restriction laws were immediately passed. In 1917, a literary test w...

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