¿WHO WAS THOMAS

WOODROW WILSON?

28th President of Born December Studied at the

the United 28, 1856 in College of New
States from 1913 Staunton, Jersey (now
to 1921. Virginia Princeton
University),
graduated 1879
 ¿WHO WAS THOMAS
WOODROW WILSON?

Elected He Died on Buried at the Wilson

President as February 3, National concluded
a Democrat 1924 in Cathedral in that
in 1912. Washington, Washington, shipping
D.C. D.C. rates were
too high
 IMPORTANCE

First Wilson’s In 1913, First income

president to administrati Wilson tax 7%
criticize the on jailed signed a 1916 15%
Declaration Eugene progressive
of Debs, the income tax.
Independen leader of the
ce and the Socialist
Constitution Party
“FOURTEEN POINTS”
1.Reliance on open diplomacy rather than
secret agreements

2.Freedom of the seas

3.Free trade

4.Reduce the military forces and/or

weapons
5.Readjust the colonies fairly

6.The allowance for Russia to self-

determine its own government

7.Respect for Belgium's Integrity

8.Restoration of French Territory

9.Italy receives territory based upon

ethnicity
10.Austria-Hungary receives fair
development opportunities

11.Independence for the Balkan states

12.Self-determination for the Ottoman

Empire’s people.
Free passage through the Dardanelles

13.Independence for Poland

14.Formation of a League of Nations to

guarantee independence for all countries.
 Achievments

He signed
He implanted
laws

A Federal A Federal The antitrust Prohibiting

Income Tax Reserve Act legislation child labor

Establish the
Federal Trade
Comission
 ACHIEVMENTS
1916
1917
1918

1918

-Limited -Asked the -He -Announced

railway US succesfully the
workers to Congress to led the US Fourteen
an 8 hour declare war to victory in Points.
workday against World War I. -His allies
Germany -He propose adopted the
the “League “Treaty of
of Nations” Versailles”
 The Deparment
of labor

The Federal
Reserve
Expanded the
executive branch
creating
The Federal
Trade Comission
Was his larger
reform package
The International
Revenue Service

The New Accepted by the By the end of his

Legacy Freedom congress first gobernment

Tariff

Banking

Consists of

Labor

Tax related
reforms
 LEGACY
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS

•Gave the •Direct election of

congress the Senators
power to impose
taxes

Sexteenth Seventeenth
amendment Amendment

Nineteenth Eighteenth
Amendment Amendment

•Granted woman •“TEMPERANCE”

the right to vote
 Put one of the
most effective
cabinets in
presidential Became the
history most important
Wilson led the
transnational
US through WWI
figure since
Lincoln

Creatition of the
Success in ONU based on
foreign affairs Legacy the Wilsonian
ideas
INTERESTING FACTS
He suffered from dyslexia

He had a tendency to racism

His administration had a more active

military intervention than his predecessors

He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1920

He was against imperialisim

INTERESTING FACTS
W. Wilson was th first Southerner in the White House since 1869.

He held the first modern presidential press conference (March 15th

1913)

He had two first ladies during his government

He had three children

•Margaret Woodrow
•Jesiie Woodrow
•Eleanor Randolph

He was know with the nickname of “Schoolmaster in Politics”

 “QUOTES”
“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the
strength of it.”

“You are here in order to enable the world to live more

amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and
achievement. You are here to enrich the world.”

“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”

-Woodrow Wilson
THE END