Jack of Harts

Woodrow Wilson’s Presidency was a time of great change in the United States of America. His Democrats passed the 16th Amendment that overruled the Supreme Court ban on Federal Income Taxes, and he quickly initiated the first income taxes in 1913 as well as oversaw major tariff reform. He also pressed for the creation of the Federal Reserve and introduced national segregation into the federal workplaces, the military, and other elements of public life. The 17th Amendment made the Senate seats popularly elected, and the 18th Amendment introduced Alcoholic Prohibition. He also brought America into World War I and spearheaded the creation of the League of Nations. And he screened the first movie in the White House, The Birth of a Nation, which denigrated the Negroes and inspired the recreation of the Ku Klux Klan it portrayed as heroes of the Southern People. It truly was a time of fundamental change in America.