2. Dates (1856-1924)
Woodrow Wilson was an American
politician and academic who served as
the 28th President of the United States
from 1913 to 1921. Besides, he was
born on December the 28th in 1856 in
Staunton, Virginia and died on February
the 3rd at the age of 67 in Washington
D.C.
3. Why was he famous?
Woodrow Wilson was the first president to
criticize both the Declaration of Independence
and the Constitution. He also wanted during
his presidency a bigger government. In fact,
President Wilson was a progressive and most
important, in 1913, he signed a progressive
income tax. Moreover, he was relevant for the
american government due to after his
presidency, most presidents have endorses
the Constitution and the abandonment of a set
of fixed principles to guide their government.
4. Woodrow Wilson’s important facts
Wilson experienced the Civil War in his youth.
Woodrow Wilson was present in Georgia when Union troops entered his
town.
He was a professional historian and political scientist.
Wilson settled into an academic career that lasted until 1910. As well, he was
a professor at other schools.
Wilson put the first Jewish justice on the Supreme Court.
In 1916, the President pushed for Louis Brandeis to be named to the high court
against savage opposition.
5. Important facts*
Wilson only had a little over two years of political experience when he
became President of the United States.
Wilson won election as New Jersey’s governor in 1910, and just two years
later, he was in the White House.
The 1912 election wasn’t a popular landslide.
Wilson won easily in the Electoral College, but his 42% popular vote total was the
third lowest in history.
6. What was Woodrow Wilson’s impact in the USA?
Firstly, his ideal inspired many americans and after his
presidency, Wilson left and enduring legacy. Besides, he
transformed the basic objective of American policy from isolation
to internationalism and finally he succeed in reforming the
Democratic Party, while Republicans became more conservative.
In addition to this, the Congress performed the most elaborate
and complete program of federal control of the nation’s economy,
which helped the United States begin to understand what was
happening in other industrial states around the world.
