Woodrow Wilson
The Ultimate Progressive?
New Freedom
Reforming Zeal
Burning Eloquence
Superb Powers of
Leadership
Went over the heads of the
political bosses to appeal to
the people
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New Nationalism
Teddy Roosevelt &
Progressives
More active gov’t role in
economic and social affairs
New FreedomWoodrow Wilson &
Democrats/Progressives
More active gov’t role in
economic and social affairs
Disagreed on strategies on how to create this active gov’t role
small enterprise, entrepreneurship
consolidate trusts
unregulated and unmonopolized markets
consolidate labor unions
all under bigger regulatory gov’t agencies * no regulation of big business but use antitrust laws
to break up big businesses into smaller units
Women suffrage
minimum wage laws
no social welfare but “fairer” competition
New Nationalism
Teddy Roosevelt &
Progressives
New FreedomWoodrow Wilson &
Democrats/Progressives
Disagreed on strategies on how to create this active gov’t role
So What?
* the election of 1912 wasn’t just a choice in
policies but a choice in economic and
political philosophies.
*when was the last time we talked about
that?
Wilson The Idealist
1/2 way between a
dictionary and the bible
Reconstruction = ideal of
self-determination?
Jeffersonian faith in the
masses - the educated
masses
Moralist
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Wilson The Ultimate Progressive
Assault on triple wall of privelage
1. tariff - Underwood Simmons Tariff Act 1913
(16th amendment)
2. banks - *Federal Reserve Act 1913
3. trusts -Federal Trade Commision Act 1914
Clayton Anti-Trust Act 1914
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17th Amendment
Seaman Act
Farm Loan Act
Keating-Owen Labor Act
Adamson Act
Workingmen’s Compensation Act
18th Amendment
19th Amerndment
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Wilson and Civil Rights
•During
his first term in office, the House
passed a law making racial intermarriage a
felony in the District of Columbia.
•His
new Postmaster General also ordered that
his Washington offices be segregated, with the
Treasury and Navy soon doing the same.
Suddenly, photographs were required of all
applicants for federal jobs. When pressed by
black leaders, Wilson replied, "The purpose of
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Control through Terror
During the progressive years, lynching of blacks
reached alarming proportions. in 1910, mobs lynched
67 blacks and 9 whites. While the KKK, most well
known for its anti-black activites, dissolved between
1880 adn 1915, local white groups terrorized blacks as
a means of control.
Your task is to examine the document and consider
various viewpoints
Control through Terror
View points of:
a member of the white circle
a black resident of idabel, okla
the county sheriff
the judge
a detective sent by the Justice dept to investigate the situation
Considerthe most appropriate role of the federal gov’t regarding secret, and
sometimes violent, organizations.
Wilson and
Civil
Rights
As president, Wilson confronted a
new generation of militant African
American leaders, men like William
Monroe Trotter, W.E.B. Du Bois and
Marcus Garvey, who had begun to
challenge their more conservative
elders - and the expectations and
assumptions of much of white
marcus Garvey
America.
W.E.B. DuBois
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Universal Negro Improvement Association
Wilson and Civil Rights
Birth of a Nation
NAACP and the clansmen
Victoriano Huerta seizes control of
Mexico
Mexico
and puts Madero in prison where he
was
murdered.
Venustiano Carranza, Pancho Villa,
Emiliano
Zapata, and Alvaro Obregon fought
against Huerta.
The U.S. also got involved by
occupying
Veracruz and Huerta fled the country.
Eventually Carranza would gain power
Mexican Revolution 1910s
Venustiano Carranza
Pancho Villa
Emiliano Zapata
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Villa in 1914.
Franciso I Madero
Porfirio Diaz
Wilson’s “Moral Diplomacy”
The U. S. should
be the conscience
of the world.
Spread democracy.
Promote peace.
Condemn colonialism.
U.S. Global Investments and Latin American
Investments 1914
U.S. Interventions in Latin America 1898-1920s