1. Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad, 1912-1916
Cover Slide
The American Pageant
Chapter 29
Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad,
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2. 1912 buttons: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson
Political buttons continued to be ubiquitous in Roosevelt and his running mate, Hiram Johnson, the governor of California, are pictured with the Bull Moose that came to symbolize the Progressive Party after Roosevelt exclaimed that he felt as fit as a bull moose. Taft, the Republican candidate, and Wilson, the Democrat, are depicted with more traditional symbols of patriotism and party. (Collection of Janice L. and David J. Frent)
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3. Caribbean immigrants at Ellis Island
The Caribbean as well as Europe sent immigrants to the United States. Proud and confident on arrival from their homeland of Guadeloupe, these women perhaps were unprepared for the double disadvantage they faced as both blacks and foreigners. (William Williams Papers, Manuscripts & Archives Division, The New York Public Library)
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4. Election Day
Election Day
Critics of the woman-suffrage movement, including this cartoonist, believed that women's place was in the home, not in the public sphere. (Library of Congress)
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5. Poster in six languages to encourage immigrant education
Those who wished to Americanize the immigrants believed that public schools could provide the best setting for assimilation. This 1917 poster from the Cleveland Board of Education and the Cleveland Americanization Committee used the languages most common to the new immigrants--Slovene, Italian, Polish, Hungarian, and Yiddish--as well as English to invite newcomers to free classes where they could learn "the language of America" and "citizenship." (National Park Service Collection, Ellis Island Immigration Museum. Photo: Chermayeff & Geismar/MetaForm)
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6. San Francisco Chinese grocery store
Though Chinese immigrants struggled, like other immigrants, to succeed in American society, they often faced severe discrimination because of their different lifestyles. As this photo of a San Francisco grocery shows, the Chinese looked, dressed, and ate differently than did white Americans. Occasionally, they suffered from racist violence that caused them to fear not only for their personal safety but also for the safety of establishments like this one, which could suffer damage from resentful mobs. (The Bancroft Library, University of California)
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7. Wilson and Taft
Wilson and Taft
Having just squared off in the 1912 election campaign, the two politicians share a light moment before Wilson's inauguration on March 4, (Library of Congress)
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8. Map: Election of 1912, by Counties
The presidential election of 1912 was complicated by the campaign of former president Theodore Roosevelt running as a Progressive. Roosevelt's campaign split the usual Republican vote without taking away much of the usual Democratic vote. Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic candidate, carried many parts of the West and Northeast that Democratic candidates rarely won.
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9. Map: Presidential Election, 1912
Though he won a minority of the popular votes, Woodrow Wilson captured so many states that he achieved an easy victory in the electoral college.
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10. Map: The United States and the Mexican Revolution
This map identifies the key locations for understanding relations between the United States and Mexico during
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11. Audio: Address to the American Indians
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Address to the American Indians
(1913. Great Speeches of the 20th Century, Rhino Records, Los Angeles, CA, 1991.)
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