Woodrow Wilson Administration

With the turn of the century came a crusade for reform. This municipal movement shifted from America’s second manifest destiny and came to be known as the progressive era. Decades prior, Americans settled the final part of coastal America and living accommodations finally increased nationwide. Americans turned to the political parties to legitimize every impulse and vision to improve life. However, the developing trusts and corporations purged the parties’ autonomy and hindered domestic trade growth. In doing so, the trusts and corporations established a codependence and direct association to the United States Congress. Here the trusts blocked a citizen’s input on Senate and House and depraved these Americans of an advantageous government.

Woodrow Wilson reformulated an incumbent’s executive authority as he augmented his administration’s efficiency and disregarded the traditional role of a president. Wilson enhanced his administration’s productivity as conveyed in his own proficiency and in the prompt passage of his “New Freedom” through Congress. By late 1914, Wilson completed all of the presidential goals mentioned in 1912 during his campaign to the White House. Historians cite the Wilson’s Presidency from 1912-1914 as a near perfect example of maintaining an administration; by clearly presenting goals, avoiding conflict, and using his Executive Authority, Wilson created an example of using the American System to the best of it’s ability (Clements, 121). In his administration, Wilson accumulated more power specifically for his presidential department by amending the functionality of the executive branch.Through his pertinacious proficiency, Wilson abled himself to manage his administration in an impeccable manner and in turn gained near sovereignty over the Legislative and Judicial branches. In addition to his exceptional use of the American system, Wilson, with his prominent executive authority, sought to pass his “New Freedom” through legislation. “Wilson was responsible for the longest list of reforms ever seen in the U.S. until Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal a generation later. His entire [the New Freedom] reform package, including tariff, banking, labor and tax-related issues, passed in Congress by

In his foreign policy, Woodrow Wilson interlaced a peaceful approach in his neutrality and sought peace in his diplomacy. As peace remained one of Wilson’s significant viewpoints, he steadily avoided any potential altercations he deemed unnecessary. After the murder of President Francisco Madero by Victoriano Huerta and his military group in Mexico, Wilson encountered a dilemma in negotiating with Mexico after their newly established leader, Victoriano Huerta, along with his military faction, killed President Francisco Madero. Wilson refused to accept the regime responding, “I will not recognize a government of butchers,” and thus avoided association with this new dictator of Mexico (Clements, 96-97).Wilson ultimately determined to wait out the impending revolution until Mexico developed into a peaceful country. It was in November of 1914 that this decision proved true after Huerta and his government ascended to Spain. Therefore, by demurring to further involvement, President Wilson thusly allayed the crisis at hand. President Wilson’s use of neutrality in Huerta conflict also occurred in the beginning of the Great War. With the outbreak of WWI in August of 1914, Woodrow Wilson appealed to Americans that the conflict needs to remain in Europe. “On August 18, in a famous statement, [Woodrow Wilson] commanded his countrymen to be “neutral in fact as well as in name, impartial in thought as well as in action,” and explained that the ultimate purpose of neutrality was to