Woodrow Wilson

Examples of Woodrow Wilson in the following topics:

• Military Segregation

  • Woodrow Wilson's policy of military segregation led to conflict, rioting, and the brutal sentencing of the all-black Twenty-Fourth U.S.
  • President Woodrow Wilson also supported segregation of the military, even when the need for troops during the First World War was so great that a national draft was reinstituted.
  • By the end of the war, more than 350,000 African Americans served in AEF units on the Western Front, earning pay equal to that of white soldiers, although they were assigned to segregated units commanded by white officers, under a policy approved by Wilson.
  • When a delegation of black soldiers protested the government’s discriminatory actions, Wilson told them "segregation is not a humiliation but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen."
  • Du Bois had supported Wilson in the 1916 presidential campaign and in 1918 was offered an Army commission in charge of dealing with race relations—Du Bois accepted, but he failed his Army physical and did not serve.

• Woodrow Wilson and Race

  • Despite promises made to black voters during the election of 1912, Woodrow Wilson gave into the demands of white Southern Democrats, fired a number of black Republican politicians, and supported racial segregation.
  • Thomas Woodrow Wilson, a Progressive Democrat, was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921.
  • Numerous black people voted for Democrat Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 election based on his promise to work for them.
  • Black leaders who supported Wilson were angered when segregationist white Southerners took control of Congress and Wilson appointed many Southerners to his cabinet; Wilson and his cabinet members fired a large number of black Republican office holders in political-appointee positions, though they also appointed a few black Democrats to such posts.
  • Quotation from Woodrow Wilson's History of the American People as reproduced in the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation.

• Wilson's Fourteen Points

  • The Fourteen Points was a speech by Woodrow Wilson in January 1918 outlining the aims of the Great War that became the blueprint for postwar peace negotiations.
  • The Fourteen Points was a speech given by United States President Woodrow Wilson to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918.
  • Wilson was awarded the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize for his peace-making efforts first envisioned in the speech.
  • Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points speech outlined his goals for postwar cooperation.
  • President Woodrow Wilson.

• Roosevelt, Wilson, and Race

  • Both Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson are criticized for their treatment of African-Americans during their tenures as president.
  • Both Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson are criticized for their treatment of African-Americans during their time as president.
  • Wilson was also criticized by such hard-line segregationists as Georgia's Thomas E.
  • Watson, who believed Wilson did not go far enough in restricting black employment in the federal government.
  • Quotation from Woodrow Wilson's History of the American People as reproduced in the film The Birth of a Nation.

• A Strained Neutrality

  • In the early years of World War I, Wilson urged neutrality and attempted to mediate peace, despite growing anti-German sentiment in the US.
  • When the war began, the U.S. proclaimed a policy of strict neutrality—"in thought and deed", as President Woodrow Wilson put it.
  • Wilson was under pressure from former president Theodore Roosevelt, who denounced German acts as "piracy".
  • Wilson's Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan, whose pacifist goals were ignored by Wilson, resigned in frustration .
  • President Woodrow Wilson looking out his door at howling dog labeled "Jingo"; representing those in the U.S. eager to join the Great War against Germany contrary to the administration's policy of neutrality.

• The Rise of Wilson

  • Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the twenty-eighth US president and a leader of the American Progressive Movement.
  • However Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic nominee, was elected with 41% of the popular vote, Roosevelt 27%, and Taft, 25%.
  • Wilson worked closely with Southern Democrats.
  • In Wilson's first month in office, Postmaster General Albert S.
  • Wilson was reticent to assert federal supremacy over the state's legislation.

• An Idealist's Diplomacy

  • Wilson spent 1914 through the beginning of 1917 trying to keep America out of the war in Europe.
  • Led by Theodore Roosevelt, Republicans criticized Wilson's refusal to build up the U.S.
  • On December 18, 1916, Wilson unsuccessfully offered to mediate peace.
  • The most important moralist of all was President Woodrow Wilson—the man who dominated decision making so totally that the war has been labelled "Wilson's War. "
  • On April 2, 1917, Wilson asked a special joint session of Congress to declare war on the German Empire.

• The Election of 1916

  • The United States presidential election of 1916, which pitted incumbent Democratic President Woodrow Wilson against Republican Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes, took place while Europe was embroiled in World War I.
  • The split with the Progressives, however, divided the Republican vote and gave a boost to Democrat Woodrow Wilson, who defeated Taft for the presidency in 1912.
  • Wilson had successfully pressured the Germans to suspend unrestricted submarine warfare, making it difficult for Hughes to oppose Wilson's peace platform.
  • Wilson's peace position was likely critical in winning the western states; the key proved to be California, which Wilson won by only 3,800 votes out of nearly a million ballots cast.
  • In the popular vote, Wilson's lead was ultimately larger, but extremely narrow.

• The Fight for the Treaty

  • The Senate did not ratify the Treaty of Versailles; despite Wilson's efforts, Republicans and Democrats were unable to reach a compromise.
  • Wilson, however, had a series of debilitating strokes and had to cancel his trip.
  • A second group of Democrats supported the Treaty, but followed Wilson in opposing any amendments or reservations.
  • Woodrow Wilson with the American Peace Commissioners at the Paris Peace Conference.
  • Discuss Wilson's attempts to rally the nation in support of the Treaty of Versailles.

• The Wilson Administration

  • Wilson's plan passed in December 1913, and the new system began operations in 1915.
  • In 1916, under threat of a national railroad strike, Wilson approved the Adamson Act.
  • In April 1917, Wilson asked Congress to declare war.
  • On March 4, 1913, Woodrow Wilson took the oath of office in Washington, D.C., for his first term as President.
  • Summarize Wilson's Progressive Democratic agenda and his involvement in World War I