1912-1916

CHAPTER 29WILSONIAN PROGRESSIVISM AT HOME

AND ABROAD

• Democrats• Wilson’s New Freedom

• Stronger Anti-Trust Legislation

• Banking Reform

• Tariff Reductions• 3rd Party Progressive

Republican Ticket• Roosevelt

• Overshadowing question of 1912 Campaign

• TR’s New Nationalism or Wilson’s New Freedom?

THE “BULL MOOSE” CAMPAIGN OF 1912

• Wilson Wins• With only 41% of pop vote• Progressivism rather than

Wilson was the real winner• Progressive Party had no

future

WOODROW WILSON A MINORITY PRESIDENT

Wilson: 2nd Democrat president since 1861Drawbacks

WILSON: THE IDEALIST IN POLITICS

• Called for an all out assault on the Triple Wall

of Privilege: The Tariff, The Banks, and The

Trusts• Underwood Tariff Bill 1913

• 16th Amendment

WILSON TACKLES THE TARIFF

• Antiquated and Inadequate Banking System• Wilson Scores Again• Federal Reserve Act 1913

WILSON BATTLES THE BANKERS

• 1914 Wilson goes before Congress again• Federal Trade Commission Act 1914

• Clayton Anti-Trust Act 1914

THE PRESIDENT TAMES THE TRUST

• Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916• Warehouse Act of 1916• La Follette Seamen’s Act of 1915• Workingmen’s Compensation Act 1916• Adamson Act 1916• Wilson Nominated Louis B. Brandeis to the Supreme

Court 1916

WILSONIAN PROGRESSIVISM AT HIGH TIDE

• Wilson Recoils from Aggressive Foreign Policy

• Attacks Big Stick policy AND Dollar Diplomacy• Jones Act 1916

• Political Turmoil in Haiti Causes Wilson to eat some of his anti-imperialist words

NEW DIRECTION IN FOREIGN POLICY

• Mexico exploited by foreign investors in oil, railroads, and mines

• Mexico volcano erupts

MORALISTIC DIPLOMACY IN MEXICO

• 1914 Serbian patriot killed heir to Austria- Hungry throne in Sarajevo

• All Europe locked in fight to the death

THUNDER ACROSS THE SEA

• Wilson Issued a Neutrality Proclamation

• Most Americans Anti German from the start

A PRECARIOUS NEUTRALITY

• When WWI Broke out US was Bogged Down in Business Recession

• German’s retaliate against British blockade

• Lusitania 1915• Sussex 1916

• Germans Agreed to not sink any more passenger ships

• Sussex Pledge

AMERICA EARNS BLOOD MONEY

• Bull Moose Progressives and Republicans meet for convention

• Wilson nominated by his party

WILSON WINS REELECTION 1916