Presidency of Woodrow Wilson | Wikipedia audio article
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Presidency of Woodrow Wilson


00:03:52 1 Presidential election of 1912
00:06:55 2 Personnel and appointments
00:07:05 2.1 Cabinet and administration
00:09:21 2.2 Press corps
00:11:08 3 Judicial appointments
00:12:26 4 Domestic policy
00:12:35 4.1 New Freedom
00:13:23 4.1.1 Tariff legislation
00:15:43 4.1.2 Federal Reserve System
00:18:28 4.1.3 Antitrust legislation
00:20:50 4.1.4 Labor issues
00:22:59 4.1.5 Agricultural issues
00:24:33 4.1.6 The Philippines and Puerto Rico
00:25:41 4.1.7 Immigration policy
00:26:55 5 Home front during World War I
00:29:37 5.1 Propaganda
00:31:24 5.2 Disloyalty
00:32:49 5.3 Prohibition
00:33:57 5.4 Women's suffrage
00:35:00 5.5 Demobilization and First Red Scare
00:37:38 5.6 Civil rights
00:41:07 6 Foreign policy
00:41:16 6.1 Idealism
00:43:23 6.2 Latin America
00:45:12 6.2.1 Mexican Revolution
00:48:03 6.3 Neutrality in World War I
00:50:31 6.3.1 Growing tensions
00:53:14 6.3.2 Preparedness
00:55:23 6.4 World War I
00:55:32 6.4.1 Entering the war
00:58:53 6.4.2 The Fourteen Points
01:00:54 6.4.3 Course of the war
01:03:39 6.5 Aftermath of World War I
01:03:48 6.5.1 Paris Peace Conference
01:07:47 6.5.2 Treaty ratification debate
01:10:51 6.5.3 Intervention in Russia
01:12:11 6.5.4 Other issues
01:13:06 6.6 List of international trips
01:13:30 7 Incapacity, 1919–1921
01:15:44 8 Elections during the Wilson presidency
01:15:55 8.1 Midterm elections of 1914
01:16:51 8.2 Presidential election of 1916
01:20:26 8.3 Midterm elections of 1918
01:21:06 8.4 Presidential election of 1920
01:23:33 9 Historical reputation



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The presidency of Woodrow Wilson began on March 4, 1913 at noon when Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated as President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1921. Wilson, a Democrat, took office as the 28th U.S. President after winning the 1912 presidential election, gaining a large majority in the Electoral College and a 42% plurality of the popular vote in a four–candidate field. Wilson was re-elected in 1916, defeated Republican Charles Evans Hughes by a fairly narrow margin. He was the first Southerner to be elected president since Zachary Taylor in 1848, and only the second person to hold the Democrat ticket since 1860.
Wilson was a leading force in the Progressive Movement, and during his first term, he oversaw the passage of progressive legislative policies unparalleled until the New Deal in the 1930s. Taking office one month after the ratification of the 16th Amendment of the Constitution permitted a federal income tax, he helped pass the Revenue Act of 1913, which reintroduced a federal income tax to lower tariff rates. Other major progressive legislations passed during Wilson's first term include the Federal Reserve Act, the Federal Trade Commission Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, and the Federal Farm Loan Act. While passing of the Adamson Act — which imposed an 8-hour workday for railroads, he averted a railroad strike and an ensuing economic crisis. Wilson's administration also allowed segregationist policies in government agencies. Upon the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Wilson maintained a policy of neutrality, while pursuing a moralistic policy in dealing with Mexico's civil war.
Wilson's second term was dominated by the America's entry into World War I and that war's aftermath. In April 1917, when Germany resumed unrestricted submarine warfare, Wilson asked Congress to declare war in order to make "the world safe for democracy." Through the Selective Service Act, conscription sent 10,000 freshly trained soldiers to France per day by summer 1918. On the home front, Wilson raised income taxes, set up the War Industries Board, promoted labor union cooperation, regulated agriculture and food production through the Lever Act, and nationalized the nation's railroad system. In his 1915 State of the Union, Wilson asked Congress for what became the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918, suppressing anti-draft ...