Factory owners strongly supported an open immigration policy during the late 1800s.
Answer:
I think it was to kill Lincoln
Explanation:
He wanted to abduct Lincoln, take him to Richmond and exchange him for Confederate soldiers then held in Union prisons.
On July 2, 1921, U.S. President Warren G. Harding signed the Knox–Porter Resolution, which had been passed by the U.S. Congress and ended the state of war between the U.S. and Germany, Austria and Hungary, further setting the stage for bilateral peace treaties.
If you're talking about WWI then their military was restricted heavily, they had war reparations, and all of this was topped off with out of control debt and inflation. Essentially, everyone was mad and poor.