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Woodrow Wilson was a highly educated man that became the twenty-eighth president of the United States. Woodrow Wilson’s background begins with Irish immigrants venturing to America. These immigrants were Wilson’s grandparents. Woodrow was the son of a Reverend and that’s where his education truly began. Woodrow received many ideas from his extremely involved father. His father defended slavery but still began secondary schools for slaves. That was his views while Wilson’s grandfather was pro-tariffs and anti-slavery. So, throughout his life Wilson got mixed messages in political views. Woodrow began his political career during his time at Princeton University. This is where he realized his future was in politics and law. During his education and experiments at being a lawyer, Wilson developed ideas that would lead him into the White House. Wilson’s economic advisor was his main influence during his rise to power. His advisor led him to be an enemy of big businesses and monopolies, which is also how the working class felt at the time. For the 1912 Presidential election, Woodrow Wilson began his “New Freedom” campaign. Wilson called for less-government but nearly abandoned those ideals when he reached the Presidency. Wilson focused on three reforms: tariff, business, and banking. Wilson felt that the American life was at risk with uncontrollably high tariffs for the imported goods. Also, Wilson thought that big businesses had far to much control of our country. He was upset with all of the unfair and illegal business practices. The last problem Wilson focused on was banking. Wilson wanted a strong banking system for America. In conclusion, Woodrow Wilson strongly focused upon those three reforms and ended up innovating our country. Wilson wanted to lower tariffs, stop bad business practices, and start good banking. Through those reforms, Wilson achieved his goals and generally solved those problems.

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