Progressivism-Wilson
...so in 1914 the Clayton Anti-Trust Act was issued. This act exempted human labor as a "commodity or article of commerce," in an attempt to protect labor unions and agricultural organizations from anti-trust prosecution.Wilson’s attempt to promote a new foreign policy failed to prevent further American interventions in Latin America. His efforts in Latin America were frustrated by the failure of his interventions and by the total disregard of Latin Americans to his ideology and advice. Even after repeated invasions in Mexico, he failed to impose his will and was forced to abandon his program. Disillusioned with Latin America, he increasingly looked to Europe to fulfill America's mission. In 1913 Democratic President Woodrow Wilson introduced a moralistic new element into this policy. Dismayed by the course of the Mexican Revolution that began in 1911, Wilson refused to recognize the government of Victoriano Huerta, arguing that it had not come to power by constitutional means. American troops even occupied Vera Cruz for much of 1914 in the dispute. Wilson's policy implied that the United States should go beyond external appearances of constitutional form and send authority to assess constitutional legitimacy and political morality. Wilson's "missionary diplomacy," which sought the best interests of the Latin American nations as he perceived them, appeared depressingly familiar to the subjects of his attention… it led to North American intervention. 4. America’s trade ties with Britain and their hostility to German submarines warfare made it difficult for President Woodrow Wilson to maintain America’s neutrality form 1914 to 1916. Wilson was for an open world, unencumbered by imperialism, war or revolution. Barriers to trade had to come down, secret diplomacy had to end and self-determination would have to force the collapse of the empires. By 1914, few Americans desired War. The Proclamation of Neutrality was issued by President Woodrow Wilson on August 4, 1914. Allies started to buy the United States’ copper, steel, munitions and more. There was an economic link between the Allies and th...