Wilson's Fourteen Points LAD #25

President Wilson listed his fourteen points in a speech given to congress. The speech gave Wilson a position of moral and fair leadership among the european allies as he did not want to punish the surrendering Central Powers. Wilson began the address by stating that the terms that the Germans gave to the Russians were unacceptable as the central powers told Russia that they could have peace while maintaining freedom but in return they would lose all the land that the central powers had occupied during the war. Wilsons point reflect his idea that peace should be made fairly to not make enemies for the future while maintaing liberty. Wilsons points stated that treaties and agreements between countries should be made public, freedom of the seas must be maintained, any barriers of trade that exist in europe should be taken down, protection of soveriegnty and self determination and several other poitns that dealt with maintaing democracy and freedom for all nations in the world.

Clayton Antitrust Act LAD #24

The Clayton Antitrust act was created to fix the problems that the Sherman Anti-trust act had which was that often times it didn't work against trusts but instead hurt unions. In the act is states that any commercial group or industry is not allowed to fix prices or discriminate to make extra profits. Furthermore the antitrust act strengthened the power of groups that were finghting against bad trusts like the Interstate Commerce Commision. If a trust was found to guilty of violating rules from the clayton anti-trust act then a court may order for the trust to be borken. Ultimately the Clayton Anti-trust act stopped the practices of unfair treatment of workes, fixing of prices and other negative issues and problems that were occuring with the corruption going on at the time.