In 1856, Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born to Joseph Wilson and Janet Woodrow. Because he was the son of a Presbyterian minister, the moral ideology of Woodrow Wilson had its foundation early in his life. It is this moral approach to politics that shaped American foreign policy for a great part of the twentieth century. Wilson was elected president in 1910, as a result of Theodore Roosevelt’s Bull Moose split from the Republican Party. The idealistic …showed first 75 words of 1994 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1994 total…factors). Looking back on the Wilson administration, one must ask, "Why was the president of the United States so involved in the freedom of others?" The answer is quite simple: The United States is a country founded by men revolting against a great power, fighting for freedom, and the chance to govern themselves. They fought not only for their economic interests, but for the right bestowed on them as men, the right to be free.