this is stipulated in Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution, requiring the President to periodically "give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient."
The correct answer is There was an increased enthusiasm for religion.
After the end of WWII, Americans joined churches and synagogues in record numbers. Increasing not only the number of attendance but also the demand for books, songs, and movies with a religious tendency. The other reason that increased the enthusiasm for religion was the Cold war, where the Communism was depicted as an anti-christian movement mastered by Satan. In 1954, Congress added the phrase “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance and in 1956 made the statement “In God We Trust” mandatory on all coins and currency. In 1956, Congress made “In God We Trust” the national motto.
Basically it kept the colonies from expanding trade, and in turn kept the colony from expanding and getting new things. England saw the colonies as a threat, and did not want them to grow into another superhero in a new land.
Answer: Germany's policy of unrestricted submarine warfare can take more credit for that. But the telegram was useful for convincing the American public that it should be sending its men over to Europe to fight. The telegram had proved the perfect justification for a change of policy and to convince some of the skeptics. Also, on February 1917 the telegram sent by the German foreign secretary, Arthur Zimmermann, to the German minister in Mexico. The telegram suggested that in the event that Germany and the US went to war, Mexico would regain "lost territories" in the southwest if it declared war on the US.
