WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Woodrow Wilson, a leader of the Progressive Movement, was the 28th President of the United States (1913-1921). After a policy of neutrality at the outbreak of World War I, Wilson led America into war in order to “make the world safe for democracy.”

Detailed explanation-2: -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. He appointed the first Jewish justice, Louis Brandeis, to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Detailed explanation-3: -Wilson cited Germany’s violation of its pledge to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean, as well as its attempts to entice Mexico into an alliance against the United States, as his reasons for declaring war.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Fourteen Points. National WWI Museum and Memorial.

Detailed explanation-5: -His emphasis on efficiency and bureaucracy fit him squarely within the Progressive movement. During Wilson’s terms, Congress passed two constitutional amendments: prohibition (18th); and women’s suffrage (19th)-both Progressive agendas.