The correct answer for this question is "a. Americans felt it was their duty to come to the aid of the Central Powers, who were being badly beaten." A major reason the United States exchanged neutrality for war in 1917 is that <span>Americans felt it was their duty to come to the aid of the Central Powers, who were being badly beaten.</span>
An unofficial group of colonists :)
It was a form of American foreign policy to further it's aims in Latin America and east Asia through use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries