AP U.S. History
Chapter 29: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad: 1912-1916
Focus Question
By the end of Woodrow Wilson's first term, the federal government--which had exercised very limited powers prior to the twentieth century--had greatly expanded its role in American life.
Analyze the consequences of this new acquisition of federal power.
Learning Objectives
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What were the main issues in the election of 1912 and how was Woodrow Wilson a minority president?
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What was the “triple wall of privilege” that Wilson set out to deal with in his first term as president?
 How was Wilson’s foreign policy different from that of Roosevelt and Taft?
 What events happened in Mexico that challenged Wilson’s foreign policy?
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What were the circumstances surrounding Wilson’s reelection win in 1916? What major challenges did the president face as Europe entered World War I?
Questions
1.
What was Woodrow Wilson's job immediately before he was elected president in 1912?
2.
What factors characterized Woodrow Wilson's record as governor of New Jersey?
The "Bull Moose" Campaign of 1912 (661)
3.
What were the major planks in Wilson's Democratic platform in 1912?
4.
What was the significance for the future of American politics when Jane Addams placed
Theodore Roosevelt's name in nomination for the presidency in 1912?
5.
What programs did Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism support?
6.
What programs did Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom purport to support?
7.
How did the choice among Taft, Roosevelt and Wilson make the 1912 presidential election notable?
Woodrow Wilson: A Minority President (662)
8.
According to the text, what was the runaway philosophical winner in the 1912 election?
9.
What was Eugene V. Debs' role in the 1912 presidential election?
Wilson: The Idealist in Politics (663)
10.
Before 1912, when was the last person born in the South elected to the presidency?
11.
What were Woodrow Wilson's defects of personality that hindered his effectiveness as a political leader? Why was he most comfortable when surrounded by academic scholars?
12.
What beliefs lay at the heart of Woodrow Wilson's political philosophy?
Wilson Tackles the Tariff (664)
13.
How did Wilson break with a custom dating back to Jefferson's day in his effort to secure passage of the Underwood Tariff Bill?

14.
How did the Underwood Tariff Act and the Sixteenth Amendment reflect Wilson's progressive goals?
Wilson Battles the Bankers (665)
15.
When Woodrow Wilson became president in 1912, what was the most serious shortcoming in the country's financial structure?
16.
How did the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 guarantee a substantial measure of public control over the American banking and currency system? What authority did the Federal Reserve
Act give the Federal Reserve Board?
The President Tames the Trusts (666)
17.
What practices was the Federal Trade Commission established in 1914 to address?
18.
What were the central provisions of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act?
19.
Besides prohibiting anticompetitive business practices, how did the Clayton Anti-Trust Act break new ground?
20.
Why did Samuel Gompers call the Clayton Anti-Trust Act "labor's Magna Carta"?
Wilsonian Progressivism at High Tide (666)
21.
To what groups did Wilson's progressive programs provide relief?
22.
How was Wilson's appointment of Louis Brandeis to the Supreme Court a first?
23.
How did Woodrow Wilson's beliefs about and treatment of blacks fit with his progressivism?
New Directions in Foreign Policy (667)
24.
How did Woodrow Wilson first undermine his stated intentions to conduct a strongly antiimperialist foreign policy?
Moralistic Diplomacy in Mexico (668)
25.
How did difficulties in Mexico in the early 20th century affect the U.S.?
26.
What factors characterized the Mexicans who settled in the area known as the borderlands?
27.
What about Woodrow Wilson's approach to American foreign policy has caused some scholars to label it "missionary diplomacy"?
28.
Why did the Wilson administration refuse to extend formal diplomatic recognition to the government in Mexico headed by Victoriano Huerta?
29.
On what occasion did President Wilson first directly use American military forces in revolutionary Mexico?
30.
In his first term, President Wilson either purchased or militarily intervened in which countries?
Thunder Across the Sea (670)
31.
At the outbreak of World War I, what were the major powers belonging to the Allies and the
Central Powers respectively?
A Precarious Neutrality(670)
32.
Upon the outbreak of World War I in 1914, what did the great majority of Americans hope that the United States would do?
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America Earns Blood Money (671)
33.
What was the major economic effect of World War I on the United States during the period of American neutrality? Why, during this period, did America increasingly trade with
Britain rather than Germany?
34.
Why did German submarines begin sinking unarmed and unresisting merchant and passenger ships without warning?
35.
Why did President Wilson insist that he would hold Germany to "strict accountability" while implicitly assenting to British interference with American merchant ships?
36.
Why was the United States outraged by the sinking of the Lusitania and how did the sinking affect German-American relations?
37.
What did Germany promise in the Sussex pledge?
38.
What was the dangerous proviso that Germany attached to the Sussex pledge?
Wilson Wins Reelection in 1916 (674)
39.
How did Theodore Roosevelt effectively kill the Progressive Bull Moose party?
40.
When Woodrow Wilson won reelection in 1916, he received strong support from which groups?
Varying Viewpoints (675)
41.
What conclusions have historians reached in attempting to define who the progressives were?
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