Question

Read the paragraph from "Wilson's War Message to Congress."

We have no quarrel with the German people. We have no feeling towards them but one of sympathy and friendship. It was not upon their impulse that their Government acted in entering this war. It was not with their previous knowledge or approval. It was a war determined upon as wars used to be determined upon in the old, unhappy days when peoples were nowhere consulted by their rulers and wars were provoked and waged in the interest of dynasties or of little groups of ambitious men who were accustomed to use their fellow men as pawns and tools.

How does Wilson organize the text to support the viewpoint in the paragraph?
He switches from specific reasons to general reasons.
He describes a clear cause-and-effect situation.
He states a main idea and offers details to make his point.
He details events in chronological order.

Answer 1

He states a main idea and offers details to make his point.

Wilson opens with the main claim (no quarrel with the German people) and then supplies supporting details and explanations (their government acted without the people's consent; the war was decided by rulers for dynastic aims) to back that claim.