Woodrow Wilson

March 4, 1913 to March 4, 1921

Year

Date

Document Title

1913

March 4, 1913

Wilson’s First Inaugural Address

 

March 19, 1913

Wilson on The Repudiation of “Dollar Diplomacy”

 

April 8, 1913

Wilson’s Address to Congress on Tariffs

 

May 26, 1913

Wilson’s Statement on the Press: Denunciation of the Tariff Lobby

 

1913

Report of the Pujo Committee: The Concentration of Control of Money and Credit {excerpt}

 

1913

Wilson’s “Monopoly, or Opportunity?”

 

August 19, 1914

Wilson’s Appeal for Neutrality

 

August 27, 1913

Wilson’s Address to Congress on Mexico

 

October 27, 1913

Wilson’s Mobile Address {excerpt}

 

December 2, 1913

Wilson’s First Annual Message to Congress

 

December 23, 1913

Federal Reserve Act

1914

March 5, 1914

Wilson’s Message to Congress: Panama Canal Tolls

 

April 20, 1914

Wilson’s Message to Congress on the Tampico Affair

 

June 8, 1914

Houston, East & West Texas Railway Company v. United States

 

June 12, 1914

Mediation Protocols of the A.B.C. Conference

 

July 23, 1914

The Ultimatum to Serbia

 

July 24, 1914

Memorandum of Advice to Serbia

 

July 25, 1914

Response to the Austro-Hungarian Ultimatum {excerpt}

 

July 28, 1914

Austro-Hungary’s Declaration of War on Serbia

 

August 5, 1914

The Bryan-Chamorro Convention {excerpt}

 

August 19, 1914

Wilson’s Declaration of Neutrality

 

September 4, 1914

The Triple Entente Declaration on No Separate Peace

 

September 15, 1914

Treaty Of Arbitration with China {excerpt}

 

September 26, 1914

The Federal Trade Commission Act {excerpt}

 

October 15, 1914

Clayton Anti-Trust Act

 

December 8, 1914

Wilson’s Second Annual Message to Congress

1915

January 28, 1915

Wilson’s Veto of Immigration Bill

 

February 10, 1915

Bryan’s Letter to Ambassador Gerard

 

May 10, 1915

“Americanism”

 

May 13, 1915

Bryan’s First Lusitania Note

 

1915

Industrial Relations Commission Final Report {excerpt}

 

August 30, 1915

Root’s Speech to the N. Y. Constitutional Convention on Invisible Government {excerpt}

 

October 15, 1915

“Americanism”

 

November 1, 1915

Truax v. Raich

 

December 7, 1915

Wilson’s Third Annual Message to Congress

1916

February, 1916

The Gore-McLemore Resolution {excerpt}

 

February 24, 1916

Wilson’s Letter to Senator Stone

 

April 19, 1916

Wilson’s Message to Congress: The Sussex Affair {excerpt}

 

April 29-May 3, 1916

Socialist Labor Party Platform

 

May 3, 1916

Treaty Between the United States and Haiti {excerpt}

 

June 10, 1916

Republican Party Platform

 

June 16, 1916

Democratic Party Platform

 

August 11, 1916

Wilson’s Letter to A. F. Lever {excerpt}

 

August 28, 1916

The Organic Act

 

September 1, 1916

Keating Owen Child Labor Act

 

September 2, 1916

Wilson’s Address Accepting the Democratic Nomination

 

September 3, 5, 1916

The Adamson Act {excerpt}

 

September 25, 1916

Wilson’s Address on Global Business (excerpt)

 

December 5, 1916

Wilson’s Fourth Annual Message to Congress

1917

January 19, 1917

The Zimmermann Note

 

January 22, 1917

Wilson’s Address to the Senate on Peace Terms

 

February 3, 1917

Wilson’s Address to Congress on Germany’s Submarine Attacks

 

March 5, 1917

Wilson’s Second Inaugural Address

 

March 19, 1917

Wilson v. New

 

March 29, 1917

Zimmermann’s Explanation of his Note to Carranza

 

April 2, 1917

Wilson's Address Requesting War on Germany

 

April 6, 1917

Wilson’s Proclamation of War on Germany

 

April 9, 1917

Bunting v. State of Oregon

 

April 17, 1917

Declaration of War Against Germany {excerpt}
 

May 18, 1917

Wilson’s Proclamation on Darft

 

June 15, 1917

Espionage Act {excerpt}

 

July 9, 1917

Wilson’s Proclamation on the Embargo

 

July 19, 1917

The Reichstag Peace Resolution

 

August 10, 1917

The Lever Act {excerpt}

 

August 27, 1917

Wilson’s Proclamation on the Embargo

 

November 2, 1917

The Lansing-Ishii Agreement {excerpt}

 

December 4, 1917

Wilson’s Fifth Annual Message to Congress

 

December 18, 1917

Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution

1918

January 8, 1918

Wilson’s Address to Congress on his War Aims (Including his 14 Points)

 

February 11, 1918

Wilson’s Address to Congress, Analyzing German and Austrian Peace Utterances

 

March 3, 1918

The Peace Treaty of Brest-Litovsk {excerpt}

 

March 21, 1918

Railway Administration Act {excerpt}

 

April 15, 1918

Wilson’s Proclamation “Do Your Bit for America”

 

May 16, 1918

The Sedition Act {excerpt}

 

May 20, 1918

Wilson’s Proclamation on Registration Day for the Draft
 

May 28, 1918

Wilson’s Proclamation on the Draft

 

June 3, 1918

Hammer v. Dagenhart

 

1918

Statue of the Permanent Court of International Justice

 

1918

Covenant Of The League Of Nations

 

1918

American Interpretation of the Fourteen Points {excerpt}

 

July 4, 1918

Wilson’s Address to Citizens on Independence Day

 

July 17, 1918

The Aide-Mémoire

 

July 26, 1918

Wilson Address to Citizens Deploring Lynching
 

August 13, 1918

Wilson’s Proclamation on the Draft
 

August 31, 1918

Wilson’s Proclamation on the Draft
 

September 30, 1918

Wilson’s Address to the Senate on Women’s Suffrage

 

October 24, 1918

Wilson’s Appeal to the Voters to Return a Democratic Congress

 

October 25, 1918

Wilson’s Address on Election of 1918

 

November 5,1918

The Allies Accept the Fourteen Points {excerpt}

 

November 8, 1918

Ultimatum by the Social Democrats

 

November 10, 1918

The Armistice Demands

 

November 11, 1918

Wilson’s Address on the Terms of the Armistice

 

November 28, 1918

Abdication Proclamation of Wilhelm II

 

December 2, 1918

Wilson’s Sixth Annual Message to Congress

1919

January 7, 1919

Wilson’s Proclamation on the Death of President Roosevelt

 

January 11, 1919

Lane’s “What America Means”

 

January 25, 1919

Wilson’s Remarks at the Peace Conference
 

January 29, 1919

Wilson’s Proclamation on Prohibition
 

February 24, 1919

Wilson’s Address on Returning to the U.S.

 

February 24, 1919

The Child Labor Act {excerpt}

 

March 3, 1919

Schenck v. United States

 

March 4, 1919

Wilson’s Proclamation on Prohibition
 

May 7, 1919

Wilson’s Proclamation Calling an Extra Session of Congress
 

May 20, 1919

Wilson’s Message to Congress in Extraordinary Session

 

June 4, 1919

Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution

 

June 28, 1919

Treaty of Versailles (original version)

 

June 28, 1919

Wilson’s Address on the Signing of the Peace Treaty
 

June 28, 1919

Treaty of Versailles (final version)

 

1919

Preamble of the Industrial Workers of the World

 

July 10, 1919

Wilson’s Address to the Senate on his Return from Paris
 

July 12, 1919

Wilson’s Veto of Daylight Saving Repeal

 

August 19, 1919

Wilson’s Exposition of the League of Nations {excerpt}

 

September 25, 1919

Wilson’s League of Nations Speech

 

October 27, 1919

Wilson’s Veto of the Prohibition Bill

 

October 28, 1919

The Volstead Act {excerpt}

 

November 10, 1919

Abrams v. United States

 

December 2, 1919

Wilson’s Seventh Annual Message to Congress

1920

February 28, 1920

Transportation Act {excerpt}

 

March 19, 1920

Resolution of Ratification of Treaty of Peace with Germany and the League of Nations {excerpt}

 

April 19, 1920

State of Missouri v. Holland

 

May 5-10, 1920

Socialist Labor Party Platform

 

May 24, 1920

Wilson’s Message to Congress on the League of Nations
 

May 27, 1920

Wilson’s Veto of Peace Resolution

 

June 1, 1920

Green v. Frazier

 

June 7, 1920

National Prohibition Cases

 

June 12, 1920

Republican Party Platform

 

July 5, 1920

Democratic Party Platform

 

July 12, 1920

Wilson’s Proclamation on the Opening of the Panama Canal

 

December 7, 1920

Wilson’s Eighth Annual Message to Congress

1921

January 3, 1921

Duplex Printing Press Co. v. Deering

 

January 3, 1921

Wilson's Veto of the Resurrection of Adavances by War Finance Corporation
 

February 3, 1921

Wilson’s Proclamation for a Special Session of the Senate
 

March 3, 1921

Wilson’s Veto of the Emergency Tariff Bill

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