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WILSON 



OUTLINE AND QUESTIONS ON WOODROW WILSON 



Outline 



I. Preparatory Years 



(1) Birth and ancestry 



(a) Father a Presbyterian clergyman 



( 2 ) Education 



(a) A graduate of Princeton 



(b) Law study 



(c) Post-graduate work at Johns 



Hopkins 



(d) Doctor's thesis a classic 



II. Career as an Educator 



( 1 ) Professor at Bryn Mawr. \\Vsleyan 



and Princeton 



(2) President of Princeton University 



(a) Introduction of preceptorial sys- 



tem 



(b) Ranks with America's greatest 



university executives 



III. Governor of \ >> Jerxey 



(1) Progressive and idealistic program 



(2) Triumph over machine politicians 



(3) Securing of reforms 



(a) Revision of state trust laws 



(4) Acceptance of Presidential nomination 



IV. Administrations 



( 1 ) Constructive legislation 



(a) Underwood-Simmons Tariff Law 

 1. Income tax provisions 



(b) Glass-Owen Federal Reserve Act 



(c) Clayton Anti-Trust Act 



(d) Trade Commission Act 



(e) Repeal of Panama tolls exemption 



clause 



(2) Mexican problem 



(a) "Watchful waiting" policy 



1. Refusal to recognize Huerta 

 government 



(b) Tampico episode 



1. Occupation of Vera Cruz 



2. Mediation of "A B C" powers 



(c) Border raids by Villa 



1. Pershing's expedition into Mex- 



ico 



2. Recall of United States troops 



(3) Other foreign relations 



(a) The Japan question 



(b) Recognition of the Chinese repub- 



lic 



(c) Treaty with Nicaragua 



(d) Haiti and Santo Domingo 



(4) War of the Nations 



(a) Efforts to keep the United States 



neutral 



(b) Sinking of the .i<ifania 



(c) Two years of diplomatic corre- 



spondence 



(d) Reflection of the President 



( 5 ) The nation at war with Germany 



(a) Increase of merchant marine 



(b) Food and Fuel Administ: 



Boards 



(c) Embargoes on foodstuffs, etc. 



(d) Increased taxes and Liberty Bond 



flotations 



(e) Registration and conscription of 



men between 21 and 31 



(f) Measures to curb disloyalty and 



treason 



(6) Miscellaneous events 



(a) Completion of the Panama Canal 



(b) Panama-Pacific and Panama- 



California expositions 



(c) Adoption of Seventeenth Ann-n.i- 



ment 



(d) Rapid advance of woman suf- 



frage and prohibition move- 

 ments 



Questions 



Why is Wilson spoken of as a conspicuous example of the "schoolmaster in poli- 

 tics?" 



What similarity is there between his acts as a Peace President and as a 

 President? 



\Yimt basis is there for the statement that Wilson ranks with the greatest of 

 American Presidents? 



In what special field of writing is this President an acknowledged authority? 



How docs he rank as a university president? 



Compare Wilson and Roosevelt as to their methods while Presidents. 



