Woodrow+Wilson

=President Wilson 28th President elected 1913-1921 (Democrat)= by: James Hickey

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[] American History by Alan Brinkley

key personal details
graduated from Princeton and the University of Virginia Law School he then earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University was the president of Princeton university until he was elected governor of new jersey in 1910 and reformed the trusts in the state gained a national reputation for winning the passage of progressive legislation

1912 Presidential Election
became the candidate for the democratic party after Champ Clark the conservative speaker of the house unable to the two thirds majority necessary to be nominated during his run for presidency he created the "New Freedom" program, a progressive approach to the economy and the destruction of the trusts he defeated the republicans Theodore Roosevelt and Howard Taft along with the socialist Eugene Debs

Progressive President and Forceful Executive
=Woodrow Wilson in World War I= =The Wilson Legacy= his involvement in World War I overshadows all of his other achievements, but his lasting affect on the country's history is the beginnings of communism and his dealings with it. the Russian withdrawal from World War I put the allied powers and America at a disadvantage and this angered the western powers, Wilson in particular. When the Bolsheviks took power Wilson did not recognize the new regime and went as far to land troops in Russia to help the anti-Bolsheviks in the country. Further increasing the tension between the two countries was Wilson's commitment to making the US the leading force in the world. Diplomatic relations were not restored until 1933 and they were never on stable or friendly terms. Wilson's choice to be against the Russians would set the basis of all American foreign policy for the next eighty years.
 * he had great control over his cabinet and only gave power to members that trusted
 * as president he called a special session of congress to lower the protective tariff, an old democratic and progressive goal allowed by the 16th amendment, Wilson created an income tax on individuals and companies earning more than four thousand dollars with rates going as high as six percent for those earning more than five hundred thousand
 * holding congress in session through the summer Wilson pushed the passing of the Federal Reserve Act tat would regulate (Federal Reserve Board) and aid (Regional Federal Reserve Banks) the banking system as well as creating the federal reserve note, the official monetary medium for the country
 * __a strong advocate against monopoly he created the Federal Trade Commission and the Clayton Antitrust Act to combat unfair trade practices and to regulate the actions made by companies__
 * he did not support woman's suffrage or civil rights, but after the democratic losses in the 1914 congressional elections he began appointing more progressive positions and began supporting a new wave of reforms such as child labor regulations although the laws were eventually killed by the courts
 * Wilson took responsibility for the American involvement in the Caribbean taking control militarily of the island of Hispaniola (Dominican republic and Haiti) and also bought the dutch west indies and renamed them them the virgin islands
 * he also made a treaty with Nicaragua that allowed America to intervene in its internal affairs to protect American interests and to also block the building of a canal by any other foreign country
 * ====__Wilson was caught up in the crisis in Mexico, the incident at Veracruz nearly pushed the country to war as did the Pancho Villa crisis__====