LAD #31: Wilson's 14 Points

Wilson's 14 Points

Wilsons fourteen points were points that he had created to try to bring to create the Treaty of Versailles that ended the Great War. These points were things like the peace amount the seas, and lots of ways to create peace between all the nations. It is also included things like all trade should be open to all euorpean countries. The last point was what was most important. This fourteenth point was the creation of the League of Nations. This league was created to try to keep peace between all the nations. But when Wilsons points were brought to the table, the Senate as well as other powers believed that they were not a success. The other powers made him change these because they belived they were not harsh enough to the Germans. In the end, only Wilson's fourteenth point of the League was put into the Treaty of Versailles and the Senate would not even allow for the United States to join it. 

LAD #30: Schenck vs. US

Schenck vs. US

In this Supreme Court case from 1919, it was decided that a judge could suspend someones freedom of speech if what they were saying caused danger or a clear threat to someone. This was put into action when Schnck and Baer were at trial and they claimed that they had the freedom of speech and so when they were oposing the draft to The Great War, that they were able and should be able to do this but it was decided that they were guilty because their freedom of speech was stopped and limited when they began causing harm by convincing people against the governement. 





LAD #29: Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

This was put in place in 1916 to try to address and fix the problems going along with child labor. This bill would limit the amout of hours a child could work while on the job and would not allow certain products they made to go interstate. This bill stated and showed that over 1 million children worked in harsh conditions in their factory jobs across America as seen from the census of 1900. Different people including Lewis Hine would show these different abuses of children in photography and many other different methods including writing at any time during their job. But this act was declared unconstitutional in 1918 through the case Hammer vs. Dagenhart because it interupted the law preventing restrictions on interstate trade. 

LAD #28: Wilson's First Inaugural Address

Wilson's First Inaugural Address

In his Inaugural Address he talked about the shift from republican to democratic power under the presidency. At the midterm election this shift happened in the Senete but it was not until his election that it happened in the presidency as well. Wilson says that this shift will help the people because the rebulicans push for wealth and big buisness but this is not always a positive. He came up with goals to get rid of these problems by lowering the tariff, reforming the national banking system, reforming the corruption and oppressiveness of big business, stoping the pollution and waste in the nation, and reforming labor laws in order to better protect workers. He belived that this would better help the nation and people. 

LAD #27: Clayton Antitrust Act

Clayton Antitrust Act

The Clayton Antitrust Act was an add on to the the Sherman Antitrust Act. It was put in place to expand further on the Sherman one. The clayton one went farther with the prohibition of trusts by stating that both horizontal and vertical integration methods were both under the trust rules therefore could be controlled by the federal governement where the Sherman one could only take control of ones that were horizontally integrated. But the main difference and reason for the add on of this act was to make it so that the Sherman Antitrust Act could not be used agains the unions. It prohibited "excessive dealings" or the "tying" of products if it lessened competition. It also made it so that one person could not be the director of more than one of competiting coorporatings.