Because it pleased at least two thirds of the American public. There had been pressure to actively join the Allies by the Americans with Anglo-Saxon roots, but Americans with German and Scandinavian roots (of whom there were also many) had been pressurizing Congress and the President to stay out of the conflict. The Irish - an important force within the Democratic Party - were dead set against the USA helping the hated British in any way. The rest of the American public saw the war as just one of those many intra-European armed conflicts and they saw no interest to themselves in getting involved.
The Zimmerman telegram changed the feelings of many US (not American) citizens.
The sinking of the Lusitania had Propaganda value only and did not precipitate the US involvement in WW 1, it happened two years prior to the US declaring itself an associated power of the Allied forces against the Central powers.
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When World War One broke out in Europe in 1914, there was little support among the US public to become engaged in this faraway war. Later in 1917 when Germany resumed submarine warfare against all shipping, US President and the Senate declared war against the Central Powers in Europe.
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President Wilson's decision to stay out of World War I was initially pleasing to so many Americans simply because his isolationist viewpoint was their own. It was not until 1917 that the general American sentiment transformed into active desire for war, which was also the same point at which Wilson himself had become convinced that war was necessary.
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