1. 17.5 Wilson’s New Freedom Objectives:
Describe Woodrow Wilson’s background and the progressive reforms of his presidency.
Explain the steps leading to women’s suffrage
Sum up the limits of Wilson’s Progressivism

2. ELECTION OF 1912 Roosevelt loses Republican nomination
Roosevelt seizes Progressive Republican League from La Follette and it becomes “Bull Moose” Party
Democrats nominate Woodrow Wilson
Wilson’s “New Freedom” v. TR’s “Square Deal”
(Wilson wanted to break up trusts, make govt. smaller)
Wilson elected by significant margin, but still as a MINORITY president
REAL WINNER:
Progressivism

3. 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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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. Woodrow Wilson Only 2nd Democratic President since 1861
Idealistic (hard to compromise – a problem later)
Reformer with popular appeal in era of party “machines”
Governor of NJ
Family ties with the South
Academic
President of Princeton

9. WILSON’S “NEW FREEDOM” =To attack the triple wall of privilege:
TRUSTS
TARIFFS
HIGH FINANCE

10. WILSON’S PROGRESSIVE AGENDA
TRUST-BUSTING:
Federal Trade Act, 1914
 Federal Trade Commission
Clayton Anti-Trust Act, 1914
 strengthen Sherman Anti-Trust Act

11. WILSON’S PROGRESSIVE AGENDA
A NEW TAX SYSTEM
( = REDUCE TARIFFS=LESS FEDERAL INCOME)
Underwood Tariff Bill (1913):
1st reduction since Civil War
Sixteenth Amendment:
Federal graduated income tax (starts at $4,000)

12. WILSON’S PROGRESSIVE AGENDA
HIGH FINANCE:
Federal Reserve Act creates Federal Reserve System.
(Fed. Government could now quickly adjust the amount of money in circulation and make credit more available)
12 Regions with a federal reserve branch
Could help local banks that ran into trouble

13. WILSON’S “NEW FREEDOM” =To attack the triple wall of privilege:
TRUSTS
TARIFFS
HIGH FINANCE

14. Wilson said, “Without the watchful resolute interference of the government, there can be no fair play between individuals and the trust.”
How does this statement reflect Wilson’s approach to reform? Support your answer.

15. Woman Suffrage http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/faces/WomenVoters.jpg
Suffragettes gather in Downtown Detroit to advocate
participation in the League of Women Voters, c. 1920

16. Woman Suffrage
CATT’s STRATEGY:
Highly organized
Close ties b/w local, state, and natl. associations
Cautious lobbying
Lady-like behavior
In 1910 Women could vote in federal election only in WY, UT, CO, ID
Suffragettes began organizing women of all classes
Carrie Chapman Catt, national leader of NAWSA (National Amer. Woman Suffrage Assoc.)
RESULT:
Successes in WA, CA, KS, OR, and AZ
Failure in MI, OH, and WI

17. 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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18. NEW TACTICS: National Woman’s Party
Mrs. Carrie C. Catt addressing the Congress of
the International Women's Suffrage. 5/29/1923.
Cleveland Public Library Photograph Collection
Preceding the inauguration of Wilson there
was a near riot as 5,000 women marched,
demanding the vote for women. The march was
led by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns

19. Steadfast Effort

20. WOMEN’S THREE PART SUFFRAGE STRATEGY (pp. 518-519)

22. Nineteenth Amendment: Granting Women Suffrage (1920)
Women’s continuous lobbying, and the combined strategies of Catt and Paul, as well as women’s contributions to WWI, finally pay off.
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23. Compare and Contrast Alice Paul and Carrie Catt

24. TERMS
Clayton Antitrust Act
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Reserve System
Nineteenth Amendment
Objectives:
Describe Woodrow Wilson’s background and the progressive reforms of his presidency.
Explain the steps leading to women’s suffrage
Sum up the limits of Wilson’s Progressivism