Andreas Wilson

They were William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Eugene Debs, and Woodrow Wilson. The election turned out to be a competition between Wilson’s and Roosevelt’s views. Wilson thought the danger was in increasing economic concentration, and Roosevelt saw the danger in increasing government power. Wilson created a program called “New Freedom.” This was supposed to make democracy better by restoring market competition and stopping big businesses…

When the Treaty of Versailles was fully executed on June 28, 1919, five years to the date of Austria- Hungary’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination, a collective sigh of relief could be felt by the world’s populace, however, this War to End All Wars, turned out to be anything but. From the very moment the peace talks began, political promises began to fall to the wayside causing tension between countries, some of which still exist today, and former allies began to have discord with one…

presidency before the war. That did not mean progressivism was over though, a few major reforms were still to come. After the war progressivism would never see the scale that it saw before the war, however. Wilson was not done in office just yet. Now that the war was over Wilson had treaties to negotiate. Wilson personally saw to the peace negotiations in…

Presidents of the United States encountered affairs that determined their legacies and how they were remembered throughout the nation. When looking back in history, the presidents were remembered for serving during important events and the solutions they produced to resolve the issues. Most were not remembered based on their characteristics, but on how well they lead the nation during difficult dilemmas. The particular circumstance involving economic situations, world affairs, or social issues…

Fordism- Fordism was a term coined in the early twentieth-century describing the economic system created by Ford Motor Company based on high wages and mass consumption. During a time when businesses were solely focused on profit, Ford was criticized for providing his workers with high wages. However, this system was efficient due to the reasoning that his workers must be able to afford the goods turned out by American factories. Seventeenth Amendment- The Progressive Era was a time of many…

During the early 1900s both the federal government and Progressive Era reformers effectively worked to bring about change through laws of consumer protection, movements towards legislative and election reform, and labor reforms. During the early 1900s many licensing programs developed to standardize professions and new laws emerged with the goal of making goods safer for consumers. The American Medical Association (AMA), an organization of doctors and medical students, was formed in 1901 by…

The progressive movement in the 1900’s is quite similar to the current definition to progressives, however its focus was to improve the lives of many Americans who worked in unimaginable conditions. The people in the early 1900’s felt oppressed and wanted things to changed. You can kind of compare it to how many people in America feel about their current situation, but within emphasize in growing. The major cause of the Progressive movement is was social problems that Americans faced in an…

World War I"). President Wilson expressed America 's main moral incentive in his War Message to Congress where he argued that "The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty," and that in order to do that America must enter the war (Kelly, Martin). This goal was also displayed in Wilson 's 14 Points that emphasized self-determination and was against governments that were forced onto the people. During Wilson 's second term,…

to emerging global power, one man in particular actively took part in the transformation of his nation. Woodrow Wilson, who had once seen the Confederacy’s President Jefferson Davis carried off in chains, lived with America’s collective memory of the devastating Civil War it had just experienced, while anticipating the nation’s growing influence throughout the world. Whether or not Wilson was responsible for the failures of his 14 points proposal domestically or internationally, the political…

Progressive Era had instilled a healthy dose of positive liberty into American domestic policy, resulting in many important educational, labor, and economic reforms that continue to affect American legislature today. But following WWI, President Woodrow Wilson took the concept of positive liberty to an even more influential level by proposing a new approach to foreign policy that essentially advocated for internationalism. In doing so, he was challenging the American tradition of isolationism…