Q1 why did president wilson ask for a declaration of neutrality? neutrality was the best chance for the us to surprise the allies by invading france to serve as a delay tactic to allow the us to secretly join the central powers (austria-hungary and germany) to prevent the us from joining either side (france, great britain, and russia vs. austria-hungary and germany) during wwi he hoped that it would prevent the japanese sneak attack at pearl harbor q2 what example shows the impact wwi had on the us economy? federal government borrowed from people through selling liberty bonds to finance war all of these federal government increased income taxes federal government increased participation in businesses q3 the great migration was a period during wwi when over a million african americans moved to northern cities between wwi and wwii where african americans moved to the rural south to find work on farms when europeans moved from western europe to the us before wwi where manufacturing job encouraged people to move to cities in the southern us