Woodrow Wilson Research Paper

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Woodrow Wilson Muhamed Beganovic Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born on December 28th, 1856. He was born to Jessie Janet Woodrow and Joseph Ruggles Wilson. Wilson spent some of his childhood observing the Civil War, and its aftermath. He was the third of the four children. When Wilson was just one, his family moved from Virginia to Georgia. When Wilson was 14, they moved to South Carolina, and his father taught at the Columbia Theological Seminary. While Wilson was seeing the war up close, his father adopted the Confederate Cause. Some scholars thought that Wilson might have had some type of form of Dyslexia. During the War, Wilsons' mother nursed wounded soldiers. Wilsons' father trained him in oratory and also debate. Which became a big passion for him. When Wilson got his big passion he then enrolled in Davidson College but then later transferred to Princeton in 1875. Then he studied law at the University of Virginia and then earned his Ph.D. in Political Science, and …show more content…

He even became the 13th president of the University. People even voted him the most popular teacher there! The reason he got to teach there was because of his oratory skills his dad taught him. A few years later, in 1906, Wilson had his first stroke, and it really threatened his life as we know. Then he became a social democrat. He then became the governor of New Jersey. His success brought him into the election for presidency. Which he soon won and became president in 1913. When he became president, he has gotten many major achievements. Some things he did was endorse the women's right to vote, helping the U.S through WWI, proposing the Fourteen Points, precepts for world peace, crafting the League of Nations, and sweeping reforms for the Treaty of Versailles (The Fourteen Points). That's not even all of them! Although, Wilson did have a record on racism, Wilsons views on race has shown when he became the president of the

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