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.

LAD #27: Clayton Anti-Trust Act

On October 15, 1914, the Clayton Anti-Trust Act was initiated against monopolies to restrain their powers. In section two of this act, it talks about how it will prevent companies from changing prices to choose their customers. This helps the people choose what type of good they want with plenty of variety. In section three it states "That it shall be unlawful for any person engaged in commerce, in the course of such commerce, to lease or make a sale or contract for sale of goods, wares, merchandise, machinery, supplies or other commodities." This section talks about how the act will not allow companies to change their price to drive out other companies. This helped small businesses give them more of a chance and the people more choice. Section seven talks about how companies are not allowed to give other companies stock options to buy them out. The actions of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act helped the country and people for better opportunity and variety.

LAD #26: I Have a Dream Speech

Martin Luther King Jr. delivered one of the most important and inspirational speech in the twentieth century on August 28th, 1963. The famous "I Have a Dream" speech has never been forgotten in the hearts of the African Americans during that time period. The speech started off by talking about the Emancipation Proclamation. King talks about how the slaves were meant to be free for one hundred years now and still are not. His next topic was about the Declaration of Independence. He talked about how the declaration includes that all men are equal with unalienable rights. This statement however excludes the black race and this needs to be changed. Next comes the most famous part of his speech where he says, "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: / we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal." King delivers one of the most moving speeches in his time in front of the Lincoln memorial, as Lincoln would be proud.

LAD #25: Dawes Severalty Act

The Dawes Act, initiated in 1887 by Grover Cleveland, was for the Indians and it did not favor them. This act relocated Indian tribes to reservations. When the land is given, the Americans could survey it at any time. The amount of land given was based on age, gender, and other aspects. This allows the Americans to gain the Indian land and sell it to the American settlers. Sometimes, the Indians were not given land in the reservation so they had the right to live else where in America. Also, the Americans could construct railroads, highways and telegraphs through these Indian lands.