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Woodrow WilsonWoodrow WilsonThe Ultimate Progressive?The Ultimate Progressive?

New FreedomReforming 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 NationalismTeddy Roosevelt & Progressives

New FreedomWoodrow Wilson &Democrats/Progressives

More active gov’t role in economic and social affairs

More active gov’t role in economic and social affairs

Disagreed on strategies on how to create this active gov’t role

consolidate trustsconsolidate labor unionsall under bigger regulatory gov’t agencies

Women suffrageminimum wage laws

small enterprise, entrepreneurshipunregulated and unmonopolized markets

no social welfare but “fairer” competition

* no regulation of big business but use antitrust laws to break up big businesses into smaller units

New NationalismTeddy 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 Idealist1/2 way between a dictionary and the bible

Reconstruction = ideal of self-determination?

Jeffersonian faith in the masses - the educated masses

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Wilson The Ultimate ProgressiveAssault on triple wall of privelage

1. tariff - Underwood Simmons Tariff Act 1913 (16th amendment)2. banks - *Federal Reserve Act 19133. trusts -Federal Trade Commision Act 1914Clayton Anti-Trust Act 1914



17th AmendmentSeaman ActFarm Loan ActKeating-Owen Labor ActAdamson ActWorkingmen’s Compensation Act18th Amendment19th Amerndment



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 these measures was to reduce the friction. It is as far as possible from being a movement against the Negroes. I sincerely believe it to be in their interest."

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 TerrorView 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

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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 America.

Universal Negro Improvement Association

marcus Garvey

W.E.B. DuBois

Wilson and Civil Rights Birth of a Nation

NAACP and the clansmen

Mexico

Victoriano Huerta seizes control of Mexico Victoriano Huerta seizes control of Mexico and puts Madero in prison where he was and puts Madero in prison where he was murdered.murdered.Venustiano Carranza, Pancho Villa, Venustiano Carranza, Pancho Villa, Emiliano Emiliano Zapata, and Alvaro Obregon fought Zapata, and Alvaro Obregon fought against Huerta.against Huerta.The U.S. also got involved by occupying The U.S. also got involved by occupying Veracruz and Huerta fled the country.Veracruz and Huerta fled the country.Eventually Carranza would gain power in Eventually Carranza would gain power in Mexico.Mexico.

Mexican Revolution 1910s

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Emiliano Zapata





Franciso I Madero





Venustiano Carranza





Pancho Villa





Porfirio DiazGeneral John J. Pershing with PanchoGeneral John J. Pershing with PanchoVilla in 1914.Villa in 1914.

Wilson’s “Moral Diplomacy”

The U. S. shouldThe U. S. shouldbe the consciencebe the conscienceof the world.of the world.

Spread democracy.Spread democracy.

Promote peace.Promote peace.

Condemn colonialism.Condemn colonialism.

U.S. Global Investments and Latin American Investments 1914

U.S. Interventions in Latin America 1898-1920s

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