Presented to America by the people of France in 1886, the Statue of Liberty sits on a 12-acre island in New York Harbor. Her crown has 25 windows and seven spikes.
American Neutrality. Since the beginning of World War I in 1914, the United States, under President Woodrow Wilson, had maintained strict neutrality, other than providing material assistance to the Allies.
The movement of tes of thousands of Southern blacks north during WWI resuled in. racial violence in the North. President Woodrow Wilson persuaded the American people to enter World War I by. pledging to make the war a war to end all wars and to make the world safe for democracy. Senate opponents of the Legaue of Nations as proposed in the Treaty of Versailles argued that it. robbed Congress of its war-declaring powers.