1. Wilson’s “New Freedom”
Woodrow Wilson tries to fill in the big shoes left by Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft

2. Eyewitness to History
“ We have been proud of our industrial achievements, but we have not stopped to count the fearful physical and spiritual cost to the men and women and children upon whom the weight and burden of it all has fallen. This is not a day of triumph, it is a day of dedication. Here must gather not the forces of party, the forces of humanity!”
Woodrow Wilson, 1913

3. Wilson Makes Quick Changes
1913 Underwood Tariff Act
Lowered tariffs in US to lowest levels in 50 years
Congress would make up revenue with graduated income tax.
$5,000 or less = 1% tax
$20,000 = 3% tax
$50,000 = 6% tax

4. Banking Reform 1913 Federal Reserve Act
Created a three tiered banking system in US.
Fed Reserve Board
Makes deals for economy through banks
Fed Reserve Banks
Offers interest loans to banks
Private banks
Offers money to
People
businesses

5. Wilson Tackles Big Business in 1914
Clayton Antitrust Act
Clarified what businesses could and could not do
Could no sell goods below cost to drive out competitors
Could not buy stock of other companies to drive them out of business
Federal Trade Commission
Authorized to investigate any corporations!
Targeted issues like
Mislabeled items
monopolies

6. Wilson Helps the Worker
Farmers
Got low interest loans to start new farms
Railroad
Adamson Act is passed
Shortened the workday of railroad workers from 10 to 8!

7. Wilson Tries to Help Child Laborers and Women
Keating-Owen Child Labor Act
Outlawed interstate sale of products produced by child labor.
Eventually overturned by Supreme Court
Why?

8. Women’s Suffrage National American Woman Suffrage Movement (NAWSA)
Leading force in the suffrage movement.
Led by President Susan B. Anthony
Took very local approach to getting right to vote
Suffrage Movement – women’s fight for the right to vote!

9. Women fight for the right to vote!
Alice Paul
Broke away for NAWSA to form National Woman’s Party
Focused more on national right to vote
Wanted a Constitutional change to allow women to vote!
But how?

10. Picket Around the White House!

14. Carrie Chapman Catt takes over National Woman’s Party
1916 Catt’s fight for women’s right to vote gets help
WWI breaks out in 1914
Women offer lots of help to war cause
Pres. Wilson says he agrees with women having the right to vote.
That always helps!
th amendment passed
Allows women the right to vote!