Read the excerpt from the Zimmermann Telegram sent from Germany to Mexico in 1917. We make Mexico a proposal of alliance on the
following basis: make war together, make peace together, generous financial support and an understanding on our part that Mexico is to reconquer the lost territory in Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. What can be concluded from the excerpt about how the telegram contributed to US entry into World War I? The United States felt betrayed by Mexico. Germany’s request for money angered the United States. Germany’s offer of land posed a direct threat to the United States. The United States wanted to support Mexico in its conflict with Germany.
Because the war in Europe was in a lot of Allied countries, for example France. They wanted to focus on the enemies that were at their front door first and posed the most imminent threat over Japan which was on the other side of the globe.
The Constitutional Convention of 1787 was called to revise the ailing Articles of Confederation. However, the Convention soon abandoned the Articles, drafting a new Constitution with a much stronger national government. Nine states had to approve the Constitution before it could go into effect.
