Woodrow Wilson’s political views

• Democratic vs AutocraticDemocratic 52%
  DemocraticAutocratic

  Endorsed a national right to vote in a January 1918 speech to Congress, yet his administration prosecuted opponents of the war under the Espionage and Sedition Acts.

• Security vs FreedomSecurity 88%
  SecurityFreedom

  Signed the Espionage Act on 15 June 1917 and, in 1918, the Sedition Act, which made it a crime to use disloyal or abusive language about the government, the flag or the armed forces.

• Nationalism vs InternationalismInternationalism 85%
  NationalismInternationalism

  Set out the Fourteen Points in early 1918, ending with a general association of nations, and campaigned for the League of Nations; the Treaty of Versailles failed in the Senate after his stroke in October 1919.

• Militarist vs PacifistMilitarist 60%
  MilitaristPacifist

  Won re-election in 1916 as the president who kept the country out of the war, then asked Congress for war in April 1917; his administration also occupied Haiti from 1915 and the Dominican Republic from 1916.

• Assimilationist vs MulticulturalistAssimilationist 70%
  AssimilationistMulticulturalist

  His administration reinforced segregation in federal agencies, yet he vetoed the Immigration Act of 1917 for its literacy test, which Congress overrode.

• Collectivize vs PrivatizeCollectivize 68%
  CollectivizePrivatize

  Signed the Revenue Act of 1913, which created a federal income tax, and the Federal Reserve Act on 23 December 1913; in 1917 the federal government took over the railroads.

• Planned vs Laissez-fairePlanned 78%
  PlannedLaissez-faire

  Signed the Federal Trade Commission Act in September 1914 and the Clayton Antitrust Act a month later, and set up the War Industries Board after entering the war in 1917.

• Isolationism vs GlobalismGlobalism 75%
  IsolationismGlobalism

  Signed the Underwood Tariff on 3 October 1913, which cut the average import tariff from 40% to 26%.

• Progressive vs TraditionalProgressive 60%
  ProgressiveTraditional

  Signed the Keating–Owen Child Labor Act and the Adamson Act in 1916, which banned interstate sales of goods made by child labour and set an eight-hour day on the railroads, but his administration reinforced segregation in government agencies.

No documented position, so not scored: Federal vs Unitary, Irreligious vs Religious, and Acceleration vs Bioconservative.