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President Woodrow Wilson: Progressive And The Domestic Policies

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President Woodrow Wilson was a progressive and the domestic policies that he helped put into place, can be felt today. He transformed the Democratic party into a “reform party”. Under his presidency, he gave support for the women’s suffrage amendment, and in the end, was the cause of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. It can be argued that he laid the groundwork for the New Deal that President Roosevelt enacted. He was responsible for the beginning of this nations federal oversight, which the Federal Reserve and Federal Trade Commission were two organizations that became the direct result. Other domestic reforms, was child labor laws, an eight-hour workday, and financial assistance to farmers
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