USA HISTORY

AMERICAN IMPERIALISM(1890 1919)

TREATY OF VERSAILLES

[SOURCES]
What was the name of the President of the USA in 1919?

(A) ** Woodrow Wilson

(B) David Lloyd George

(C) Abraham Lincoln

(D) Thomas Jefferson

EXPLANATIONS BELOW

Concept note-1: -Woodrow Wilson, a leader of the Progressive Movement, was the 28th President of the United States (1913-1921).

Concept note-2: -Wilson had intended to seek a third term in office but suffered a severe stroke in October 1919 that left him incapacitated. His wife and his doctor controlled Wilson, and no significant decisions were made.

Concept note-3: -Thomas Woodrow Wilson-he would later drop his first name-was born on December 28, 1856, in the small Southern town of Staunton, Virginia.

Concept note-4: -What were Woodrow Wilson’s accomplishments? Woodrow Wilson created the League of Nations after World War I (1914–18). He presided over ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote, and laws that prohibited child labour and that mandated an eight-hour workday for railroad workers.