LAD #31: Wilson's Fourteen Points

After Russia leaves the Great War, Wilson discusses the disadvantage to the loss of the Eastern front. Wilson's main goal was to get involved in the war only to create peace for other countries with harmony for all. Next, Wilson introduces his Fourteen Points and it talks about actions with Russia, trade rights, and free water ways. Yet, the main part of all the points was to set up the League of Nations. Although he introduced it, the United States never became involved in the league until later when it made a huge impact to creating world peace. His Fourteen Points were set up to become peaceful with others throughout the world. The nation took small steps forward to become the 'peacekeepers".

LAD #30: Schenck v. United States

Charles Schenck was a man who made mistakes to the government. Schenck told the public that they were going to resist the Conscription Act. This action led to him being in violation of the Espionage Act for insubordination in the military and against recruitment. Schenck took this to the Supreme Court because he wanted to show the Espionage Act violated the first amendments. Justice Oliver Holmes Wendell wrote that the freedom of speech was "clear and present danger" to persuade against Schenck as this did prevail. Schneck lost the case unanimously, yet this ruling has been overturned.

LAD #28: Wilson's Inauguration

The democrat in the 1912 election was elected as president and that man was Woodrow Wilson. Wilson starts off by talking about a new government. With a fresh look, including a democratic government and a democratic house of representatives, this change is a step forward where these civilians should be beneficial for a government like this. This speech lead to the next topic of the big businesses. Wilson talks about the many ways of getting rid of these trusts and monopolies, just like Theodore Roosevelt. His talk would later be proved as he initiated the Clayton-Anti Trust Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, and the Keaton-Owen Act of 1916. Wilson's first step of becoming president was one that should not be forgotten.

LAD #29: Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act was an important step forward for children becoming children. This act limited the companies to not be able to employ children at the age of 14 or below or else customers could not buy products from the company. Also, this rule applied for mines with miners being 16 or below. This forced companies to stop employing children and for the children to get back to a regular life and become educated. This rule also applied for night jobs and it regulated jobs to be 8 hours long per day. People that helped promote this act and were against the child labor were people like Karl Marx, Lewis Hine, and Charles Dickens. Hine is most famous for his pictures depicting the tough life of the children working in the factories with many disadvantages, like long hours and poor working conditions. Dickens wrote Oliver Twist to depict the life of an orphan working with street criminals in London. This act was deemed to be unconstitutional by many court cases like Hammer v. Dagenhart and Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company, but was seen constitutional with the U. S. v. Darby, which reversed the unconstitutional ruling. This act helped many children gain their lives back and ruined some companies.