Read the passage from Woodrow Wilson’s Declaration of Neutrality. The people of the United States are drawn from many nations, and chiefly from the nations now at war. It is natural and inevitable that there should be the utmost variety of sympathy and desire among them with regard to the issues and circumstances of the conflict. Some will wish one nation, others another, to succeed in the momentous struggle. It will be easy to excite passion and difficult to allay it. Those responsible for exciting it will assume a heavy responsibility, responsibility for no less a thing than that the people of the United States, whose love of their country and whose loyalty to its government should unite them as Americans all, bound in honor and affection to think first of her and her interests, may be divided in camps of hostile opinion, hot against each other, involved in the war itself in impulse and opinion if not in action.
–Declaration of Neutrality,
Woodrow Wilson,
1914

Which reason does the passage give for US neutrality at the start of World War I?
A. to avoid disagreement among Americans with ties to Europe
B. to avoid a conflict that would have no effect on American lives
C. to avoid an expensive endeavor that would cost a high price
D. to avoid a war that would result in high American casualties