Mr. Wilson Takes Action
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Woodrow was a reformer and an innovator. Aside from being dedicated to making Princeton an institution of first rank and fostered reform through young academics who were assigned to live with students and hold discussion sessions about the work. He was also successful in updating the university’s curriculum. The victories and defeat of Wilson made him a popular figure after he was reported in the New Jersey Press. After being nominated for governor of New Jersey in 1910, he aligned himself with legislative processes and managed to achieve many goals. He was able to pass regulation of public utilities, school reform, workmen’s compensation, and direct primaries. He became an even more poplar figure, then he would be nominated for president. Woodrow wanted a new freedom, to achieve this, he had made new freedom pledges of reform in tariff revision, banking and currency matters, and antitrust modification. Later on November 4, 1915 he delivered a speech focusing on the biblical passage Ezekiel 33:6. The aftermath of this caused congress to approve a peacetime increase in the army and navy. In 1918, Woodrow laid down the Fourteen points, a statement which lessened the German’s war enthusiasm. He didn’t completely agree with the allies, and wanted a peace treaty based on justice, not bitterness. Although the congressional elections were a defeat for him, he didn’t let it get in the way of holding a peace conference. He decided to make a league of nations with the “Big Four.” This league of nations would plan for international organizations. He believed this could end future wars by allowing nations to decide fair settlements. All Woodrow Wilson wanted was peace, and so he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in the late 1920’s for his services to the country.