Woodrow Wilson

During World War I, in 1914, President Woodrow Wilson announced a policy, saying that they wanted neutality. They also created a popular song called, "I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier". That song expressed antiwar sentiment of many Americans. Over the times when America was neutral, Germans attacks shifted public opinions to Allied cause. In fall of 1914, Britian set up a naval blockade of German ports and seized all goods bounded for Germany. In …

…biggest move was in 1867, when he arranged the purchase of Alaska from Russia. Alot was not pleased by his move. At that time, the $7.2 million deal was criticized alot. This territory was mostly called the, "Polar Bear Garden" or "Seward's Icebox.". Even so, the purchase of this resource rich territory was a great benefit and bargain for the United States. Throughout the carrer of Seward, he continued to pursue new territory before he retired in 1869.