After then U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's failed attempts to negotiate an agreement with Germany to end the unrestricted attacks of German submarines on British ships the German Foreign Minister, in what came to be known as the Zimmerman Telegram, invited Mexico to join the war alongside Germany and offered to help Mexico recover the Texas, New Mexico and Arizona territories. The UK intercepted the telegram and passed the information along to President Wilson. America saw this invitation as an act of war and so in an effort to put an end to militarization from foreign opposition U.S. congress called for war on Germany on April 6th, 1917.
Progressives were looking to change the problems of industrial society. Reformers wanted to tackle the tensions of urbanization, professors wanted new ideas to guide remedial action, and journalists exposed government corruption. Business leaders wanted to enforce efficiency and regulation, and industrial workers struggled to improve their bad working conditions. Women organized to protect their families and homes. Working condition issues - working conditions were difficult and dangerous. Workers worked around 9-12 hours/day, and wages were minimal. These conditions were not sustainable for a family, and so women and children had to work to provide for the their family.
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Possibly d due to most governments not wanting to decrease poverty because that would mean money comes out of the governments pockets.
