Germany having unrestricted submarine warfare. What happened was Germany said it was going to attack neutral ships. In 1917 the american ship named the Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine on its way to Britain with supplies for the British. So in general the sinking of the Lusitania.<span />
One of the major compromises in the Constitutional Convention was between the small states and the big states. The small states wanted each state to have to same number of representatives in Congress, while the big states wanted representation based on population.
The answer is "Carl Vinson".