AP U.S. History
 Who were the Progressives?
The basic contrast between the two progressive candidates, Roosevelt and Wilson, was that Roosevelt
wanted the federal government to regulate the economy and promote social welfare, while Wilson
wanted to restore economic competition and social equality.
I’m as strong as a
Bull Moose.
New Nationalism:
1. Consolidation of trusts & labor
unions.
2. Increase the federal
government’s power to regulate
trusts.
3. Women’s suffrage
4. Minimum wage laws
5. Government-run healthcare
and other social welfare
programs.
Fragmentation, not
regulation
New Freedom:
1. Break-up the monopolies.
2. Less government regulation.
3. No social welfare programs.
Wilson won the election of 1912 primarily because Taft and Roosevelt split the former Republican vote.
Taft – a fathead with
the brain of guinea pig
Teddy – a
dangerous egotist
Thank you fellas!
Taft got spanked.
Only the second Democrat president
since Buchanan in 1856!
Wilson’s primary weakness as a politician was his tendency to be inflexible and refuse to compromise
A good guy, but imperfect:
1. He sympathized with the Confederacy’s attempt to win
independence.
2. He believed in Jeffersonian democracy (state’s rights, limited
government. Low tariffs.
3. Wilson was VERY religious.
4. Compromise was difficult for Wilson.
5. He wouldn’t recognize immoral governments.
The way to see by faith is to
shut the eye of reason.
Quiet Franklin
T. Jefferson
I can’t stand
stupid senators
The “triple wall of privilege” that Wilson set out to reform consisted of the tariffs, the banks, and the
trusts.
During the Wilson administration, Congress exercised the authority granted by the newly enacted
Sixteenth Amendment to pass a federal income tax in order to compensate for lower tariffs.
The new regulatory agency created by the Wilson administration in 1914 attacked monopolies, false
advertising, and consumer fraud was the Federal Trade Commission
Why should East coast businesses,
bankers, and millionaires get
government protection?
The Federal Reserve is
basically a government
controlled bank with
numerous branches across
the U.S. that can inject
money into the economy
very quickly if needed.
Amen,
brother
While it attacked business monopolies, the Clayton Anti-Trust Act exempted from antitrust prosecution
agricultural and labor organizations. Before Wilson, many presidents would use the Sherman Anti-Trust
Act to attack unions as monopolies.
Guess who the
Democratic voters
are in 1912?
Wilson’s the
Man!
God bless
Wilson
Unions are not
monopolies!
My poor
Standard Oil
Trust.
President Wilson
William Jennings
Bryan
John D. Rockefeller
Samuel Gompers
Western farmer
Wilson’s progressive policies and laws substantially aided many groups.
Federal Farm Loan Act of
1916 gave farmers loans at
low interest rates.
Workingmen’s
Compensation Act of 1916 for
federal workers who become
disabled.
Warehouse Act of 1916
allowed loans using crops
as collateral.
La Follette Seaman’s Act of 1915
provided a higher wage and
better treatment to merchant
sailors.
Adamson Act of 1916
established an 8 hour
workday for train workers
Life for African Americans, on the
other hand, became worse. Wilson
supported segregation in the
federal government and Wilson
would not meet with Black leaders.
Justice Louis D.
Brandeis was the first
Jew on the Supreme
Court.
Gringo jerks!
Is the
ammunition
across the chest
too much? You
can tell me, I
won’t get mad.
The beard is back
baby!
I will not recognize
immoral
dictatorships.
Carranza
Protect American
business in Mexico
– War!
Huerta
Villa
Wilson’s initial attitude toward the Mexican Revolutionary government was
to refuse recognition of General Huerta’s regime, but avoid American
intervention. Later, Wilson sold weapons to Pancho Villa and Carranza in
order to help overthrow General Huerta. Meanwhile, Wilson was angered
when some American sailors were arrested in Tampico. Wilson attacked Vera
Cruz in retaliation. Luckily, the threatened war between the United States
and Mexico in 1914 was avoided by the mediation of the ABC powers, which
consisted of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile
William Randolph Hearst
owned a ranch in Mexico
larger than the size of
Rhode Island!
Wilson rejected
Taft’s Dollar
Diplomacy and
Roosevelt’s
militaristic
imperialism.
I pretty much fail to do
much of anything in
Mexico.
Vive Me!
Wow, dude…wow.
General Pershing’s expedition into Mexico
was sent by Wilson in direct response to the
killing of American citizens in New Mexico
by “Pancho” Villa. Pershing has to leave
when war in Europe breaks out.
Pancho Villa begins to attack Carranza when Carranza takes
power in Mexico. Villa also attacks Americans, as punishment
for the American attack on Vera Cruz and as a strategy to start a
Mexican-American war.
Europe dove into war when the heir to Austria-Hungary was assassinated in Serbia. The sympathy of a
majority of Americans for the Allies and against Germany was especially conditioned by the German
invasion of neutral Belgium. Sharing a common culture with Great Britain helped too.
Britain is choking
Germany at sea and
America is not truly
neutral, so…
Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Germany’s only chance
at fighting for the sea
was using U-Boats to
attack British and
American shipping and
British war ships.
After the Lusitania, Arabic, and Sussex sinking, Wilson
successfully pressured the German government to cease
from sinking neutral American merchant and passenger
ships without warning (Americans secretly transported
weapons on “neutral” merchant ships).
The Republican
candidate for president
was a whiskered Wilson.
The race was actually a
lot closer than you think,
check it out.
Eugene V. Debs,
a socialist, got
5% of the
popular vote!
Regarding Hughes, one
should not try to murder a
man who is committing
suicide.
No one got a
majority of the
popular vote!
Everyone was so convinced Hughes won that Wilson
went to bed thinking he was a loser and New York
newspapers printed Hughes as the next president.
Wilson valued America’s former tradition of
isolationism. Besides, America was making
a ton of money staying neutral and selling
war materials. Wilson’s most effective
slogan in the campaign of 1916 was “he kept
us out of war.” Roosevelt and the
Republicans wanted war.
What were the differences between New Nationalism
and New Freedom?
2. What was the Progressive Movement?
3. How was the Progressive Movement different from
the Social Gospel and the Gospel of Wealth?
4. How was Wilson’s Moral Diplomacy different than
Taft’s Dollar Diplomacy or Roosevelt’s Big Stick?
1.