User:Atcovi/Authentic Assessment/Woodrow Wilson


 * Decide which influential individual you want to commemorate. Woodrow Wilson
 * The person should be an influential individual between 1865 and 1910. Served as president from 1913 - 1921 [exception from teacher]
 * This can be someone we have learned about or someone else from the same time period that you think is deserving.
 * Do some research to provide evidence to support your choice and maintain a Works Cited page.
 * What did they do?
 * How did they change America?
 * How is their work still being felt today? OR How might our world be different today without their work?
 * Woodrow Wilson has two systems that are still being used today, which are the Federal Reserve System (a system that is still being placed in which it helps to regulate the economy by controlling the money supply) and he changed the tax system, in which he implemented a graduated tax system... His system was that people with less money would play less taxes than rich people would. Woodrow Wilson's idea of the League of Nations still exists today. Woodrow Wilson's League of Nations is probably his most important contributions.

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Woodrow Wilson was governor of New Jersey (1911 - 1913).

Woodrow Wilson, in 1913 after defeating William Howard Taft (current president) and Theodore Roosevelt, became the 28th President of the United States. He used all of his knowledge he studied as a professor into the US Government. After Woodrow Wilson (year) after becoming president of the US, World War I broke out in Europe after an assassination of the Duke of Austria/Hungary in Serbia. Woodrow Wilson first decided that he wanted to say out of war, and that was a reason why he got elected for a second term. But soon after being elected for the second term, then Woodrow Wilson had no choice, but to enter World War I, due to the Germans sinking U.S. ships, while the ships were travelling to Britain.

On November 11, 1918, World War I came to an end. Woodrow Wilson influenced the treaty a lot. He had the idea of the "League of Nations", which are countries that negotiate peace in disputes (even though it failed). Woodrow Wilson, due to his League of Nations idea, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919.

Letter
Write a letter to A. Donald McEachin, about presenting to the General Assembly to make a statue of Woodrow Wilson. Take note, the presentation is WHY Woodrow Wilson should be president, and the letter is to notify the senator that you want to present a presentation to the General Assembly.

Dear Donald McEachin, I would like to present to you, my presentation.... at the General Assembly, on why Woodrow Wilson, our 28th President, should receive a statue at Capital Building. Woodrow Wilson is more important than any other president in the post Civil War era. He entered a time where women suffrage was at the pinnacle (highest), child labor need to take care of, World War I broke out and Mexico's out-of-control government. Not only entering a tough time, but as well as earning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919, for his idea of the "League of Nations", which was to help negotiate with disputes. Woodrow Wilson is also a very educated person... earning a PhD in Political Science (and multiple other degrees) and President of Princeton University. So... I'd like to present my presentation to propose my idea of Woodrow Wilson having a statue at Capital Building. Thank you! [student name]