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The Progressive Era | Wilson's War on Tariffs | 5

2025/6/4
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Chair of the War Labor Policies Board
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Congressional Aide
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Ellen Wilson
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Jane Addams
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Lindsey Graham
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Newspaper editor
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Robert La Follette
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Walter Lippmann
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Woodrow Wilson
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Congressional Aide: 我父亲认为武装民用船只对抗德国是走向战争的一步，而战争只会让贪婪的工业家受益。如果美国卷入欧洲战争，不仅会失去数千美国人的生命，还会扼杀许多父亲长期支持的进步事业。 Robert La Follette: 我坚信美国必须保持中立，武装民用船只对抗德国是走向战争的一步，战争只会让贪婪的工业家受益。这项法案将使战争不可避免，战争只会让贪婪的工业家受益。 Lindsey Graham: 参议员罗伯特·拉·福莱特反对武装美国商船对抗德国潜艇的法案，因为他认为这会使国家更接近战争，而战争只会使富人和有权势的商业领袖受益，并损害进步事业。进步人士想知道战争会重新激活他们的运动，还是彻底摧毁它。

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This chapter explores President Woodrow Wilson's progressive agenda, including his focus on economic reform and his controversial stance on racial segregation. It covers his successes with tariff reform, banking reform, and antitrust laws, contrasting them with his unwillingness to support social justice causes like women's suffrage and racial equality.
  • Wilson's "New Freedom" aimed at economic reform, targeting tariffs, banks, and trusts.
  • Successful passage of the Underwood Tariff and the Federal Reserve Act.
  • Wilson's administration implemented segregation in federal offices, sparking outrage among Black Americans.

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In 1913, Woodrow Wilson entered the White House, ready to fulfill his promise of a “New Freedom.” It was a vision of domestic reform that aimed to wrest power away from special interests and expand economic opportunities to all. Over the next two years, he fought for lower tariffs, banking reform, and antitrust laws.

But the outbreak of war in Europe threatened to derail his agenda. As America moved closer to the brink of intervention, Progressives wondered whether war would reenergize their movement, or destroy it once and for all.

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