Question

Read the excerpt from President Woodrow Wilson’s speech, “War Message to Congress.”

Answer 1

B Congress and the American people

Answer 2

Who is the intended audience of this speech?

The correct answer is Congress and the American People.

When Woodrow Wilson says, “It is a war against all nations” he is starting to call the attention of his people, to say this is your concern too, the concern of all.  Another sentence that shows the intended audience is, “The challenge is to all mankind” meaning this concerns everybody, even to the people who believes this war is not his or her concern, a war that started against a few, is now against all. Furthermore, he ends with a very bright sentence, “but only the vindication of right, of human right, of which we are only a single champion.” A whole nation together with the congress fighting the common enemy will win and will be a single champion.