Sources + Lessons:
1) http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/woodrowwilson - Wilson taught to promote America as a place of democracy and safety. War and turmoil in countries existed across the World, and Wilson tried to show that the United States would welcome anybody with open arms.
2) http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1919/wilson-bio.html - Wilson teaches the dangers of corruption. He enforced the changing of the tariff, the revising of the banking system, the checking of monopolies and fraudulent advertising, the prohibiting of unfair business practices, and the like. He demanded equity in the economy.
3) http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/wilson/essays/biography/1 - Although church and state should never mix, Wilson used the same ideals and morals of his religion. He never let it affect his policies and actions in office, but he used it as a guideline to make fair and pious decisions.
4) http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/FWWwilsonW.htm- Although most presidents liked to engage in war to solve the majority of the problems, Wilson believed in peace. On the 8th January, 1918, President Woodrow Wilson presented his Peace Programme to Congress. Compiled by a group of US foreign policy experts, the programme included fourteen different points. The first five points dealt with general principles: Point 1 renounced secret treaties; Point 2 dealt with freedom of the seas; Point 3 called for the removal of worldwide trade barriers; Point 4 advocated arms reductions and Point 5 suggested the international arbitration of all colonial disputes. If there was a diplomatic way of something to be done, Wilson would do it.
5) http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/wilson.htm- A lesson that would be very beneficial today is that Wilson always tried to compromise because he knew legislation had to be passed and things had to be done. He could bring parties together for the greater good of the government.
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