Epistle: Wilsons “The Road From Revolution”

By: Tim Ross, Justin Eichorn, Brianna Lange, and Jess Volm

Epistle- A formal and informative letter• Each Epistle in the Bible addresses a different

situation or problem • All throughout the Bible

• Wrote The Road Away from Revolution to help save his country

• He believed that Christianity and Jesus could save the nation

Time period background• Red Scare• Despite provocation and pressure to enter the

widening war in Europe that had begun in 1914, Woodrow Wilson maintained American neutrality for two years• escalation of submarine warfare by Germany that

included unlimited war on neutrals left Wilson with no choice but to ask Congress for a declaration of war in April 1917

• Wilson's Fourteen Points Address of 1918 called for a peace of reconciliation• based on democracy, self-determination, without

annexations and indemnities, and a postwar League of Nations

Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson

• Born December 28, 1856, in Virginia

• Very religious, grew up with a Presbyterian preacher as a father

• grew up in Georgia and South Carolina during the Civil War and its aftermath

• Wilson is the only U.S. president to hold a Ph.D.

• Was often ill• After traveling around the

world to get the Treaty of Versailles ratified, fell ill and never fully recovered

“The sum of the whole matter is this, that our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually. It can be saved only by becoming permeated with the spirit of Christ and being made free and happy by the practices which spring out of that spirit. Only thus can discontent be driven out and all the shadows listed from the road ahead.”

Communism

Capitalism

Differences

Communism• a classless, moneyless, and stateless

social order structured upon common ownership of the means of production• Marxist–Leninist interpretations• a theory or system of social

organization based on the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state

Capitalism• an economic system in which trade,

industry and the means of production are controlled by private owners with the goal of making profits in a market economy• Central characteristics of capitalism

include capital accumulation, competitive markets and wage labor• term “capitalism” is often attributed

to Karl Marx

Differences• Capitalism-growth depends on private enterprise• Communism- the state takes over the

productiveness of the country, which is supposed to bring equal prosperity to the whole population regardless of how hard each individual works or merits•Doctor reaps same benefits as a garbage collector

• in capitalism there is freedom of speech, while in a communist way of life the very nature of the system does not allow freedom of speech

Chart of Economics Link

Country Ranks

Obama Fundamental Change video

Responsibility

Debt clock

Trillion dollar video

Fill In the Blanks• The idea of capitalism is ___________,

but it needs to be used to help others• He feared America would become like

the __________ and turn to a ________ Economic society• He wanted a moral, _______ society• The Epistle is a _____.

private ownership

Soviet Union Communist

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Questions• What is the difference between Communism and

Capitalism?• Communism is how everyone who works, works towards

the community and everyone benefits the same no matter how much work they put in. Capitalism is all about how much work and individual puts in. The individual then reaps the benefit of however much work they put in, so no work means no benefit.

• What did Woodrow Wilson believe would save America?• Jesus and the Bible

• What was going on that led to the writing of the Road Away from Revolution?• America becoming more capitalist, didn’t want to become

communist

Sources• http://

www.wilsoncenter.org/about-woodrow-wilson• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism• http://

dictionary.reference.com/browse/communism• http://

answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071110110523AAadBMv