Chapter 29 Focus Questions:
Essay question: Compare and contrast the domestic and foreign policies of the three Progressive Era presidents. Be
sure to name policies, when appropriate, and refer to specific events in the presidencies of Theodore Roosevelt, William
Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.
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Before he was elected president in 1912, what had Woodrow Wilson done politically?
In the job from #1 what did he establish a record as?
What were the major points of the Democrat’s successful 1912 party platform?
Who placed Teddy Roosevelt’s name in the Republican nomination for presidency in 1912 & what did this signify?
What were the major points of Theodore Roosevelt’s New Nationalism platform in the 1912?
List the goals of Wilson’s New Freedom agenda.
Why was the 1912 election notable (according to the text)?
List the candidates and their parties for the 1912 election.
According to the text, what was the runaway philosophical winner in the 1912 election?
Woodrow Wilson was the first ____________ elected to the presidency since the Civil War.
Who did Wilson like to be surrounded by?
What all was included in Wilson’s political philosophy? (4)
How did Woodrow Wilson secure the passing of the Underwood Tariff Bill?
What did Wilson do that had not been done since Jefferson’s day?
How did the Underwood Tariff Act and the 16th Amendment reflect Wilson’s progressive goals?
What was the 16th Amendment?
What were the problems with America’s financial structure and how did Woodrow Wilson address those
problems?
What were the major provisions of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913?
What authority did the Federal Reserve Act give to the Federal Reserve Board?
The Federal Trade Commission was established to address what practices? (4)
What was the Clayton Anti-Trust Act and how did it break new ground?
What did Samuel Gompers call the Clayton Anti-Trust act and why?
Who was Louis D. Brandeis?
What groups were provided relief by Wilson’s progressive programs?
How did Wilson show the limits of his progressivism – what did he accelerate?
Explain how Wilson was moralistic in terms of his foreign policy.
Wilson’s anti-imperialist foreign policy was first undermined when he sent the marines to what islands?
What was the original problem in Mexico which went unresolved from the later part of the Taft administration
through the first year of the Wilson administration?
What did many Mexicans do as a result of difficulties in Mexico?
Describe the Mexicans who settled in the borderlands. (4)
Why did Wilson finally intervene against the Huerta government and why would he not recognize Victoriano
Huerta as the leader of Mexico?
Before his first term ended, Wilson had militarily intervened in or purchased what countries? (4) pages 667-670
What two European alliances formed before 1914 and who were the members of each alliance?
From 1914 to 1916 America was trading more with Britain than with Germany – why? (What did Britain control?)
How did most Americans feel about getting involved in WWI when it started?
Which side did the US conduct an immense amount of trade with and why?
President Wilson insisted that he would hold who to “strict accountability” and why?
Why did German submarines begin sinking unarmed and unresisting merchant passenger ships without warning?
What country was the Lusitania from?
What caused the death of the Bull Moose party?
What was the Sussex pledge? And what was the proviso that Germany attached to the pledge?
When Woodrow Wilson won reelection in 1916, what economic faction and political faction really supported him
the most?