#1: How did Wilson win election in 1912? What were the essential qualities of his presidential leadership, and how did he display them in 1913–1914?

• The “Bull Moose” Campaign of 1912

– The Progressive Election: Taft, Roosevelt, and Wilson

– Third Parties Make Headroom

– Herbert Croly: The Promise of American Life

• Wilson: A Minority President

• Wilson: The Idealist in Politics *

#2: What were the results of Wilson’s great reform assault on the “triple wall of privilege”—the tariff, the banks, and the trusts?

• Wilson Tackles the Tariff

• Wilson Battles the Bankers

• The President Tames the Trusts

• Wilsonian Progressivism at High Tide *

• Reading the Death Warrant

• This cartoon appeared in a New York newspaper soon after Woodrow Wilson called for dramatic reform of the banking system before both houses of Congress. With the “money trust” of bankers and businessmen cowed, Wilson was able to win popular and congressional support for the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.

#3: 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 very kind of U.S. interventions in other countries that he professed to dislike?

• New Directions in Foreign Policy

• Moralistic Diplomacy in Mexico *

#4: Why was it so difficult for Wilson to maintain America’s neutrality from 1914 to 1916?

• Thunder Across the Sea

– Central Powers v. Allies

• A Precarious Neutrality

– Anti-German | Kaiser Wilhelm II

• America Earns Blood Money

– U-boats | Lusitania | Sussex Pledge

• Wilson Wins Reelection in 1916 *

• “Here’s Money for Your Americans. I May Drown Some More.”

• Germany expressed “profound regret” for the deaths of 128 Americans aboard the torpedoed passenger liner Lusitania in 1915, but the incident helped feed a mounting anti-German sentiment in the United States.