Question 2 Following escalating international tensions throughout late 1916
and early 1917, President Woodrow Wilson addressed a joint
session of the two houses of Congress on April 2, 1917 and asked
Congress to declare war on Imperial Germany
Why did President Wilson need to make this request?

A. Because the executive branch is not as powerful as the legislative
branch

B. Because the Constitution empowers
Congress to declare war, not the
president

C. Because the president had ordered military action and was trying to
gain support from Congress

D. Because Congress could convince their constituents, raising support for
the war

mprove the economic conditions for farmers

1. the townshend acts of 1767 “threaten the country with poverty and ruin.”

at a town meeting held at faneuil hall in boston on october 28, 1767, boston freeholders and residents discussed the implications of the brutal townshend acts levied against the colonists. the townshend acts were a set of four acts passed by the british parliament in the summer of 1767 in order to generate revenue for the crown (through duties on goods such as lead, glass, paper, and tea) as well as exert british control over the increasingly rebellious colonists.

during the oct. 28 meeting, the bostonians found:

the excessive use of foreign superfluities is the chief cause of the present distressed state of this town, as it is thereby drained of its money: which misfortune is likely to be increased by means of the late additional burthens and impositions on the trade of the province, which threaten the country with poverty and ruin.

as a result, the citizens unanimously voted to boycott all british-made goods.