#1: How did Wilson win election in 1912? What
were the essential qualities of his presidential
leadership, and how did he display them in 1913–
1914?
• The “Bull Moose” Campaign of 1912
– The Progressive Election: Taft, Roosevelt, and Wilson
– Third Parties Make Headroom
– Herbert Croly: The Promise of American Life
• Wilson: A Minority President
• Wilson: The Idealist in Politics *
#2: What were the results of Wilson’s great reform
assault on the “triple wall of privilege”—the tariff,
the banks, and the trusts?
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Wilson Tackles the Tariff
Wilson Battles the Bankers
The President Tames the Trusts
Wilsonian Progressivism at High Tide *
• Reading the Death Warrant
• This cartoon appeared in a
New York newspaper soon
after Woodrow Wilson
called for dramatic reform
of the banking system
before both houses of
Congress. With the “money
trust” of bankers and
businessmen cowed,
Wilson was able to win
popular and congressional
support for the Federal
Reserve Act of 1913.
#3: How was Wilson’s foreign policy an attempt to
expand idealistic progressive principles from the
domestic to the international arena? Why did
Wilson’s progressive democratic idealism lead to the
very kind of U.S. interventions in other countries that
he professed to dislike?
• New Directions in Foreign Policy
• Moralistic Diplomacy in Mexico *
#4: Why was it so difficult for Wilson to maintain
America’s neutrality from 1914 to 1916?
• Thunder Across the Sea
– Central Powers v. Allies
• A Precarious Neutrality
– Anti-German | Kaiser Wilhelm II
• America Earns Blood Money
– U-boats | Lusitania | Sussex Pledge
• Wilson Wins Reelection in 1916 *
• “Here’s Money for Your
Americans. I May Drown
Some More.”
• Germany expressed
“profound regret” for the
deaths of 128 Americans
aboard the torpedoed
passenger liner Lusitania
in 1915, but the incident
helped feed a mounting
anti-German sentiment in
the United States.