Why did the companies control the government of their colonies? They had planned to gradually allow government by the people.
They did not believe in the rights of the people.
They wanted to control the colonists so they could provide profits for the company.
They were acting under the king’s order to control their colony.

they believed democracy was worth the fight

when world war i broke out across europe in 1914, president woodrow wilson proclaimed the united states would remain neutral, and many americans supported this policy of nonintervention. however, public opinion about neutrality started to change after the sinking of the british ocean liner lusitania by a german u-boat in 1915; almost 2,000 people perished, including 128 americans. along with news of the zimmerman telegram threatening an alliance between germany and mexico, wilson asked congress for a declaration of war against germany. the u.s. officially entered the conflict on april 6, 1917.

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