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Wilson’s New Freedom

2. Wilson Wins Financial Reforms
Wilson’s Background
Two Key Antitrust Measures
Lawyer
Professor
President of Princeton
New Freedom
Attacked the “Triple Wall of Privilege”
Trusts
Tariffs
High Finance
Freedom is not to be “let alone”
Clayton Antitrust Act – 1914
Strengthened the Sherman Act
Unions had the right to exist and could no longer be attacked as trusts
Federal Trade Commission
“watch dog”
Was reported to and investigated corporations

3. Wilson Wins Financial Reforms
A New Tax System
Federal Income Tax
Underwood Act
Severely lowered tariffs
State of the Union
Bully Pulpit
Voters watch your senators
Loss in tariff money
Sixteenth Amendment
Progressive tax
1%-6%
Largest source of revenue for the federal government still to this day

4. Wilson Wins Financial Reforms
Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve System
Private Bank
12 Districts
“Banker’s bank”

5. Women Win Suffrage 1910 Some take European tactics Local Suffrage
Catt and The National Movement
1910
Wyoming
Utah
Colorado
Washington
Idaho
Some take European tactics
Carrie Chapman Catt
Successor of Susan B. Anthony
Painstaking organization
Close ties between local, state, and national workers
Establishing a wide base of support
Cautious lobbying
Gracious, ladylike behavior
Nineteenth Amendment – 1919

6. The Limits of Progressivism
Wilson and Civil Rights
The Twilight of Progressivism
Continues to avoid the issue
Lynching
Washington D.C. re-segregated
Saw separate but equal as just
The outbreak of WWI moves America’s focus off change
2nd term dominated by foreign policy