Ch. 32 Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad

FLASH CARD I.D.S Define and give the causes and effects of the following

1. Eugene Debs
2. Federal Reserve Act
3. Lusitania
4. New Nationalism
5. Federal Trade Commission
6. Sussex Pledge
7. New Freedom
8. Clayton Antitrust Act
9. Underwood Tariff Bill
10. Bull Moose Party

Socratic Seminar Prompts - select three and write a one paragraph essay for each response.

1. Explain the Candidates and their platforms in the election of 1912 and account for the victory of President Wilson.
2. What were the essential qualities of Wilson's presidential leadership, and how did he display them in 1913-1914?
3. Who do you think you would have voted for in the election of 1912 and why?
4. What were the results of Wilson's great reform assault on the "triple wall of privilege"- the tariffs, the banks, and the trusts?
5. How was Wilson's foreign policy an attempt to expand idealistic progressive principles from the domestic to the international arena? Why did Wilson's progressive democratic idealism lead to the kind of U.S. interventions he professed to dislike?
6. What were the advantages and disadvantages to isolationism from Europe from 1914 - 1916?
7. Why was it so difficult for Wilson to maintain America's neutrality from 1914-1917? What would you have done differently had you been president?
8. How did Wilson's foreign policy differ from that of the other great progressive president, Theodore Roosevelt? (See Ch. 30) Which president was more effective in foreign policy and why?
9. Do you think America was justified in declaring war on Germany in 1917 and entering World War I? Why or why not?