The US public was deeply divided against entering WWI

Evidence

In 1917, the United States remained intensely divided over the merits of entering a war that had already claimed millions of lives and enormous resources, with no end in sight. To many it also seemed, essentially, a contest between European powers for European territory. And so many Americans, especially those of German or Irish descent, saw no particular reason for their country to take the side of the British. Wilson and Creel were both all too familiar with these objections. Indeed, Wilson had just won reelection on a neutrality platform, which Creel had explained and justified in a bestseller published during the campaign entitled Wilson and the Issues. There was no stronger case for staying out than the one these two men had made. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 152

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The American public absorbed antiwar protests with bemused tolerance rather than hostility — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 1049; German Americans publicly declared loyalty to avoid WWI-era discrimination — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes…, 410

Broader Connections

• The American public absorbed antiwar protests with bemused tolerance rather than hostility #qualifies (0.85) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1049
• German Americans publicly declared loyalty to avoid WWI-era discrimination #exemplifies (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 410