Ch. 29 Class Discussion Questions
#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?
Wilson Tackles the Tariff
Wilson Battles the Bankers
The President Tames the Trusts
Wilsonian Progressivism at High Tide *
#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 *