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Quiz :Wilson's full name and birth - Answer :-Thomas Woodrow Wilson
-born December 28, 1856
-in Staunton, Virginia in white home that now holds tours
Quiz :What disability do ppl think Wilson had - Answer :dyslexia - couldn't
read at age 10/very slow learner
Quiz :what was Wilson's dad - Answer :-Presbyterian minister dad (Joseph)
which shaped upbringing/deeply religious family
Quiz :what did Wilson's dad teach him, and who in modern times thought this
too - Answer :- God put Christians in the world to make it better
- Tommy had to heal country after civil war, mission from God
-George W. Bush thought he was on a mission from God as well which made
him go into Iraq war
Quiz :Civil War and Wilson - Answer :- shaped by it bcs he was a southerner
and he saw every family he knew lose loved ones
Quiz :what did Wilson teach himself - Answer :shorthand
-could rely less on reading which helped his education
- one of the first Americans to use the typewriter
Quiz :what was wilson characterized as - Answer :-cold fish/corner pharmacist
-someone devoiding passion
-however he was passionate about improving the world , about God, and
women's touch (tiger)
Quiz :Wilson's wife - Answer :-Ellen Wilson (Axson) first lady in 1913-14, 1st
wife
-born May 15, 1860 to Aug 6, 1914
-also daughter of Presb. minister
-married in 1885 w/3 kids
-most romantic couple ever?
Quiz :where did Wilson go to college and what was college life like - Answer :-
College of New Jersey- now Princeton
, -liked baseball, debate, politics
-defended white southerner classmates (defensive but skilled arguer)
-graduated from Princeton in 1879
-support from parents helped w/ mental disability (bcame v smart and
confident)
Quiz :what happened @Johns Hopkins - Answer :-wrote Congressional Gvt
published in 1885
-book still admired today as a study of lawmaking in the national US gvt
-accepted as Hopkins dissertation (argues for a stronger US fed gvt)
Quiz :which colleges did he teach @/ what was ironic - Answer :-Bryan Mawr
(Pa.)
-Wesleyan Uni (Middletown)
-Conneticut
- all women colleges
-princeton lecturer
Quiz :Princeton lecturer - Answer :-at age 33
-voted most popular 7/8 years w/standing ovations
-taught jurisprudence (philosophy of law) and political economy (illustrates
America's growing gap btwn have and have nots)
- wrote 9 books
- age 46 was president of Princeton
-only pres to have earned doctorate (PH.D) from Hopkins
Quiz :what was he concerned about - Answer :-saw a few fams growing v $$$
but many fams lived pathetic lives
-was wealth made from industrial age was not being shared = (industrail rev
was good but population and urbanization- still lots of poverty)
-trusts prohibited the avg person from getting their peice of the pie/ to get the
American dream with even brains and hard work
-system was rigged for the rich against the poor w/ trusts and monopolies
Quiz :who was Wilson influenced by - Answer :-Jacob Riis (photographer of
how the other half lives)
-took pictures in the part of town called 5 points
Quiz :cheating on wife? say whhhaaat? - Answer :deep faith did not stop him
from cheating on Ellen with Mary Peck on Bermuda trip in 1907
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