D. The idea that whites need to help civilize nonwhite
It helped our government because it created the 13 and the 14th amendments, it also inspired the 19th amendment to be passed, which is the amendment that gave women their rights.
Interesting document.
It was issued by the German Foreign office (January 1917) proposing that Mexico should align itself with Germany in the even America enter the war. Germany was pleading for an alliance that would keep America busy dealing with an attack from the south. Fortunately it didn't work.
