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Opener. Explain how Woodrow Wilson was able to win the Election of 1912 below. Use the visuals in your notes to help with your explanation. The Elephant: “Well, you’ve helped rip me apart and “downed” yourself. I hope you’re satisfied. Enter Woodrow Wilson. Dad : Presbyterian minister.

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  1. Opener Explain how Woodrow Wilson was able to win the Election of 1912 below. Use the visuals in your notes to help with your explanation.

  2. The Elephant: “Well, you’ve helped rip me apart and “downed” yourself. I hope you’re satisfied.

  3. Enter Woodrow Wilson

  4. Dad:Presbyterian minister Mom:Daughter of Presbyterian minister May have had a learning disorder

  5. Dyslexia – Could not read until age 12

  6. President of Princeton Univ. Professor for 16 years Governor of NJ Rise To Power

  7. 1st to hold regular press conferences Wilson in the White House

  8. “New Freedom”:Program to restore competition & entrepreneurial spirit Plan had 5 main reforms…OR?

  9. 1. Reducing Tariffs Tariff: Tax on imported goods High tariff protected American business

  10. Underwood Tariff: Reduced average tariff 30% How does the U.S. make up for the lost revenue? Income Tax!

  11. 2. – Income Tax - Tax placed on the money that one makes (income) - 16th amendment made up for lost revenue from tariffs

  12. 3. Reforming Banks Proposed fed. reserve system: Gov’t has more control over banks

  13. Created 12 regional banks overseen by federal reserve board 1913: Congress approves

  14. 4. Regulating Trusts Clayton Antitrust Act: Spelled out specifically what big businesses could not do.

  15. Example: • Companies could not work to reduce comp. • Price cutting in local markets was forbidden

  16. Federal Trade Commission: In charge of stopping unfair business practices among companies

  17. 5. Protecting Workers Supported laws requiring companies to have workers’ compensation

  18. Progressivism & Race

  19. Civil War occurs • Who wins? • What happens to black slaves?

  20. Jim Crow Laws: Mandated segregation in hotels, restaurants, parks, etc. inSouth

  21. 1896 -Plessy v Ferguson: separate but equal is constitutional

  22. Booker T. Washington - Son of slaves - Paid way through Hampton Institute (school for freed slaves)

  23. Tuskegee Institute:Trade school for blacks

  24. Accommodation Economic success Independence + Hard work Respect from whites

  25. ….then racial equality will be achieved

  26. W.E.B. Du Bois Born & raised to free black family in MA 1st black to get Ph D. from Harvard

  27. OpposedWashington & accommodation Demand immediate equality! Mockingly referred to Booker T. Washington as the “Atlanta Compromise”

  28. Who would have made the follwoing quotes? “Accept Jim Crow laws without challenge” “Demand Equality at once! Winning equality is not in developing vocational skills but in voting”

  29. 1.Women Progressives: Usually supported black reformers Reactions Jane Addams helped organize the NAACP

  30. 2.Teddy Roosevelt: “Now as to the Negroes! I entirely agree with you that as a race & in the mass [they] are altogether inferior to the whites.”

  31. 3.Whites in general: Washington’s ideas more acceptable - did not directly challenge white social & political domination.

  32. Booker T. Washington W.E.B. DuBois

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