Woodrow Wilson by Haleigh Nicoloff https://padlet.com/haleigh_nicoloff/vp51987fg4f4 Malcom Nicoloff en-us 2017-02-21 20:05:48 UTC 2025-11-01 19:03:48 UTC hello@padlet.com Foreign Policy haleigh_nicoloff https://padlet.com/haleigh_nicoloff/vp51987fg4f4/wish/155335153 In 1912, within one week of taking office, Woodrow Wilson removed governmental support for American businesses operating in the Caribbean and China. He was an intense with imperialism and his goal was to reverse Roosevelt’s “big stick” policies and Taft’s “dollar diplomacy.” His vision for U.S. foreign policy was based on morality.  For this reason, His foreign policy has sometimes been called “missionary diplomacy” or “moral diplomacy.”
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He quickly evolved an ambitious foreign policy. In U.S. foreign relations, most notably a faith in the superiority of democracy, Wilson's foreign policy was unique in its own right. Among other points, "Wilsonianism" advocated the spreading of democracy, the opening of global markets, the creation of an international organization dedicated to keeping peace, and an active global role for the United States
https://edsitement.neh.gov/curriculum-unit/woodrow-wilson-and-foreign-policy
]]> 2017-02-23 19:26:51 UTC https://padlet.com/haleigh_nicoloff/vp51987fg4f4/wish/155877697 Economic Policy haleigh_nicoloff https://padlet.com/haleigh_nicoloff/vp51987fg4f4/wish/155886607 He was responsible for the longest list of reforms ever seen in the U.S. until Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal a generation later.

He created the Federal Reserve Bank to make the U.S. banking system more responsive to national economic conditions. He pushed Congress to  reform the high tariff then in place to lower the cost of living for the middle and working classes. ]]> 2017-02-23 19:52:12 UTC https://padlet.com/haleigh_nicoloff/vp51987fg4f4/wish/155886607 Economic Policy Part 2 haleigh_nicoloff https://padlet.com/haleigh_nicoloff/vp51987fg4f4/wish/156410242
He supported the Clayton Anti-Trust Act which not regulated business practices to prevent unfair competition, It protected unions. He had appointed Louis Brandeis, the first Jewish member of the U.S. Supreme Court, despite strong arguments and such from business interests and powerful members of Congress. Wilson also backed legislation that gave the Philippines, then an American colony, self-rule and the right to elect their own legislature.
He also instituted the first income tax, set on a sliding progressive scale
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  • A Child Labor Tax Law assessed a 10% tax on the net profits of factories and mines employing children “to offset any competitive advantage employers thereby gained. The legislation introduced a minimum age of 14 for workers in most jobs, and of 16 for mining and night work. The legislation also required documentary proof of age and, like the previous Keating-Owen Act, limited working hours for minors. From 1919 to 1922 the Supreme Court legislation to be unconstitutional, arguably as a result of, or partly because of, this legislation, the number of working children fell by 50%.

    • ]]>     2017-02-27 14:30:03 UTC https://padlet.com/haleigh_nicoloff/vp51987fg4f4/wish/156413087     Social Policy Part 2 haleigh_nicoloff https://padlet.com/haleigh_nicoloff/vp51987fg4f4/wish/156422705 A National War Labor Board was established, which improved working conditions in factories by insisting on an eight-hour workday, no child labor, and better safety conditions.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Freedom
    ]]>     2017-02-27 14:50:15 UTC https://padlet.com/haleigh_nicoloff/vp51987fg4f4/wish/156422705     Crisis Management haleigh_nicoloff https://padlet.com/haleigh_nicoloff/vp51987fg4f4/wish/156529334  A step toward U.S. entry into World War I, President  Wilson learns of the so-called Zimmermann Telegram, a message from German Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmermann to the German ambassador to Mexico proposing a Mexican-German alliance.
    The State Department sent a copy of the Zimmermann Telegram to President Wilson,  the next day proposed to Congress that the U.S. should start arming its ships against possible German attacks.

    ]]>     2017-02-27 19:06:29 UTC https://padlet.com/haleigh_nicoloff/vp51987fg4f4/wish/156529334     Crisis Management Part 2 haleigh_nicoloff https://padlet.com/haleigh_nicoloff/vp51987fg4f4/wish/156541884 In the First note signed by Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, He affirmed the right of United States to travel on merchant ships of their choosing, urging Germany to abandon unrestricted submarine warfare against commercial ships of any nation.  Notably, he did not warn to the American people against traveling on belligerent ships for their own safety.

    In the second Wilson note, Wilson rejected the Germans argue that the British blockade was illegal and an attack on innocent civilians.  Wilson also denied the German accusation that the Lusitania had been  carrying  munitions Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned in protest over this letter, stating that Wilson was being too provocative and that the President’s position was not befitting a leader of a neutral country.  Wilson appointed Robert Lansing as Bryan’s replacement.

    The last note was an ultimatum, where the United States would consider any subsequent sinkings of merchant vessels with Americans aboard as “deliberately unfriendly”.

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