Most white Southerners reacted to defeat and emancipation with dismay. Many families had suffered the loss of loved ones and the destruction of property. Some thought of leaving the South altogether, or retreated into nostalgia for the Old South and the Lost Cause of the Confederacy and they were not very happy.
The fourteen points speech of president Woodrow Wilson was an addres delivered before a joint meeting a congress on january 8, 1918, during wihch Wilson outlined his vision for a stable,long lasting peace in Europe,the americans and the rest of the world following world war I
