<span>Human societies no longer had to follow herds of animals to find enough food.</span>
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He became a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end the practice of slavery, before and during the Civil War. After that conflict and the Emancipation Proclamation of 1862, he continued to push for equality and human rights until his death in 1895.
President Wilson unsuccessfully bets away his dreams for peace in Europe after World War I when he trusted the Senate would approve the Treaty of Versailles regardless of the possibility that it contained an agreement to set up the League of Nations.
Woodrow Wilson, the 28th U.S. president, drove America through World War I and made the Versailles Treaty's "Fourteen Points," the remainder of which was making a League of Nations to guarantee world peace.