James Wilson

Examples of James Wilson in the following topics:

• The Debate over Slavery

  • Delegates James Wilson and Robert Sherman proposed the Three-Fifths Compromise, which the convention eventually adopted.
  • After proposed compromises of one-half by Benjamin Harrison of Virginia and three-fourths by several New Englanders failed to gain sufficient support, Congress finally settled on the three-fifths ratio James Madison proposed.

• Debate over the Presidency and the Judiciary

  • While waiting for the convention to formally begin, James Madison sketched out his initial draft, which became known as the "Virginia Plan" and which reflected his views as a strong nationalist .
  • It was chaired by John Rutledge, and other members included Edmund Randolph, Oliver Ellsworth, James Wilson, and Nathaniel Gorham.
  • James Madison authored the Virginia Plan, which contained important provisions on the presidency and judiciary.

• The Election of 1920

  • Harding soundly defeated Democratic Governor James M.
  • Irish- and German-American voters who had backed Wilson and peace in 1916 now voted against Wilson and Versailles.
  • This was four times the amount spent by his Democratic opponent, James M.
  • This set up a hard road for the next Democratic presidential hopeful, James M.
  • His 26.2% is the largest margin of victory in the popular vote since James Monroe ran unopposed in 1820.

• Postwar Politics and the Election of 1920

  • Harding, a former newspaper man; in turn, the Democrats chose newspaper publisher and Governor James M.
  • Wilson won them over in 1917 by promising to ask Britain to give Ireland its independence.
  • This satisfied Wilson.
  • Wilson had hoped for a "solemn referendum" on the League of Nations, but did not get one.
  • Irish- and German-American voters who had backed Wilson and peace in 1916 now voted against Wilson and Versailles.

• Wilson's Fourteen Points

• The Retreat from Progressivism

  • The 1920s saw a rejection of the Progressive ideology of Woodrow Wilson; however progressive ideals continued in various ways.
  • La Follette, Sr., Charles Evans Hughes, and Herbert Hoover on the Republican side, and William Jennings Bryan, Woodrow Wilson and Al Smith on the Democratic side .
  • Harding ran against Democratic Ohio Governor James M.
  • The election was seen, in part, as a rejection of the "progressive" ideology of the Woodrow Wilson Administration in favor of the "laissez-faire" approach of the William McKinley era.
  • Clifford Berryman's Progressive Era cartoon shows Woodrow Wilson priming the pump, representing prosperity.

• Woodrow Wilson and Race

  • Thomas Woodrow Wilson, a Progressive Democrat, was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921.
  • Numerous black people voted for Democrat Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 election based on his promise to work for them.
  • Black leaders who supported Wilson were angered when segregationist white Southerners took control of Congress and Wilson appointed many Southerners to his cabinet; Wilson and his cabinet members fired a large number of black Republican office holders in political-appointee positions, though they also appointed a few black Democrats to such posts.
  • In 1914, Wilson told The New York Times, "If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it."
  • Quotation from Woodrow Wilson's History of the American People as reproduced in the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation.

• Populism and Religion

  • He served in Congress briefly as a Representative from Nebraska and was the 41st United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson from 1913 to 1915, taking a pacifist position on the World War.
  • President Wilson appointed him Secretary of State in 1913, but Wilson's strong demands on Germany after the Lusitania was torpedoed in 1915 caused Bryan to resign in protest.
  • The major study which seemed to convince Bryan of this was James H.
  • The campaign kicked off in October 1921, when the Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia invited Bryan to deliver the James Sprunt Lectures.

• The Wilson Administration

  • Wilson's plan passed in December 1913, and the new system began operations in 1915.
  • In 1916, under threat of a national railroad strike, Wilson approved the Adamson Act.
  • In April 1917, Wilson asked Congress to declare war.
  • For his sponsorship of the League of Nations, Wilson received the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize.
  • Summarize Wilson's Progressive Democratic agenda and his involvement in World War I

• Roosevelt, Wilson, and Race

  • Both Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson are criticized for their treatment of African-Americans during their tenures as president.
  • Wilson was also criticized by such hard-line segregationists as Georgia's Thomas E.
  • Watson, who believed Wilson did not go far enough in restricting black employment in the federal government.
  • Quotation from Woodrow Wilson's History of the American People as reproduced in the film The Birth of a Nation.
  • Describe the Brownsville Affair during Roosevelt's administration, and Wilson's perpetuation of Jim Crow laws.