President Woodrow Wilson

The Presidency of Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson’s presidency was by many accounts one of the most successful in American history. Not only did his domestic affairs and reform policies give birth to the modern age of liberalism but his foreign policies would lead the United States to victory in World War I. This would in turn contribute to the United States involvement in world affairs.

President Wilson would expand on government with his many programs that he would establish in his time in office. On the global front he would play a major role in the founding of The League of Nations. In domestic affairs he would push through major programs such as the Federal Reserve Act, The Federal Trade Commission, and The Clayton Antitrust Act, which strengthened laws limiting the power of large corporations. He would later go on to establish an 8-hour workday for railroad workers, and would secure federal loans for farmers. President Wilson also gave birth to modern liberalism, which was expressed in his appointing of Louis D. Brandeis, a noted reform lawyer and the first Jew to be appointed to the Supreme Court. He would remain heavily involved in domestic and reform affairs until the United States focused its attention to a more global involvement, namely World War I.

There are several reasons why the United States got involved in World War I. First, the British im...