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Woodrow Wilson

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was the 28thPresident of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as theGovernor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913. Running against Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt and Republican candidate William Howard Taft, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912.

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Herbert Croly

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was an intellectual leader of the Progressive Movement as an editor, and political philosopher and a co-founder of the magazine The New Republic in early twentieth-century America. His political philosophy influenced many leading progressives including Theodore Roosevelt

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Eugene Debs

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one of the founding members of the International Labor Union and the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW or the Wobblies), and several times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States.[1] Through his presidential candidacies, as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States.

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Louis D. Brandeis

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was an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939.

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Venusitano Carranza

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ne of the leaders of the Mexican Revolution. He ultimately became President of Mexico following the overthrow of the dictatorial Huerta regime in the summer of 1914

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Pancho Villa

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Mexican Bandit who thought to over throw the Mexican Government, Raided southern U.S. territory, infuriated U.S.

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John J. Pershing

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"Black Jack" lead the American Expedition Force down into Mexico to weed out Villa, later led U.S. troops in the first World War.

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Kaiser Willhelm

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was hated by Americans as he was seen as the brutish hun. German and Austro-Hungarian agents in America further tarnished the
Central Powers’ image when they resorted to violence in American
factories and ports, and when one such agent left his briefcase in a
New York elevator, the contents of which were found to contain plans
for sabotage.

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New Nationalism

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Roosevelt's Political 1912. was inspired by Herbert
Croly’s The Promise of American Life (1910), and it stated that the government should control the bad trusts, leaving the good trusts
alone and free to operate.
TR also campaigned for female suffrage and a broad program of social welfare, such as minimum-wage laws and socialistic”
social insurance.

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New Freedom

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Wilson's political slogan, Wilson’s New Freedom favored small enterprise, desired to
break up all trusts—not just the bad ones—and basically
shunned social-welfare proposals.

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Underwood Tariff

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Underwood Tariff of 1913, which substantially reduced import fees and enacted a graduated income tax (under the approval of the recent 16th Amendment).

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Federal Reserve Act

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created the new Federal Reserve Board, which oversaw a nationwide system of
twelve regional reserve districts, each with its own central bank, and had the power to issue paper money (“Federal Reserve Notes”).

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Federal Trade Commission

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1914, Congress passed the Federal Trade Commission Act, which empowered a president-appointed position to investigate the activities of trusts and stop unfair trade practices such as unlawful competition, false advertising, mislabeling, adulteration, & bribery.

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Clayton Anti-Trust Act

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engthened the Sherman Anti-Trust Act’s list of practices that were objectionable, exempted labor unions from being called trusts

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Jones Act

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in 1916, which granted full territorial
status to the Philippines and promised independence as soon as a stable government could be established.

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Lusitania

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German subs, or U-boats, sank many ships, including the Lusitania, a British passenger liner that was carrying arms and munitions as well.

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Sussex Pledge

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After Germany seemed to break that pledge by sinking the Sussex, it issued the “Sussex pledge,” which agreed not to sink passenger ships or merchant vessels without warning, so long as the U.S. could get the British to stop their blockade.