Progressive Philosophy
Wilson thought these "constitutional means" (Fed. No. 51) for brooking the branches of the federal government arrested its ability to attain the common good.
What are checks and balances?
This social movement succeeded in banning the sale of booze.
What is Prohibition?
Woodrow Wilson was governor of this state before he was president.
What is New Jersey?
What we call WWI often carried this Progressive nickname.
What is the War to End All War?
Midterm election results in this year, announced simultaneous to President Wilson's foreign trip, swept in Republicans majorities opposed to internationalism.
What is 1918?
Progressives argued that this right, essential to Lockean liberalism, did not make "the great mass of people" more free.
What is property?
Amendment XVI created a new tax relation between American citizens and the federal government by creating a tax on this.
What is income?
This New Yorker was the first Progressive president; later, he ran for president under the Progressive Party banner.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
Armistice Day, now Veteran's Day, was observed at this time and hour.
What is November 11 at 11 am?
This chess term is used to describe the first foreign visit by an American president.
What is Wilson's Gambit?
Wilson thought that vesting legislative, executive, and judicial functions in differing branches — known as this — too much limited the president's authority.
What is separation of powers?
What is regulation?
Who is President William Howard Taft?
The wartime revolution in this country would, three decades later, create much trouble for the United States.
What is the Russian Empire (Russia)?
What is a stroke?
This American President, in a famous Fourth of July oration, argued that the Progressives' ideals were not modern but ancient.
Who is Calvin Coolidge?
Amendment XVII transferred the power to elect senators from these to these.
This Massachusetts senator led his party in opposition to ratification of the Treaty of Versailles.
Who is Senator Henry Cabot Lodge?
Doughboys mostly fought in this country.
What is France?
This provision of the Treaty of Versailles committed the United States to mutual defense of Europe.
What is Article X?
Wilson wrote that this government activity was "outside the proper sphere of politics."
What is administration?
This Amendment extended the right to vote to all American citizens.
What is the 19th?
This man led the American Expeditionary Force.
Who is General John J. Pershing?
Later historians would find this slogan of Wilson's a touch ironic — even manipulative.
What is, "He kept us out of war"?
The world, said Wilson in his war message to Congress, must be "made" this.
What is "safe for democracy"?