You could say it was the beginning of a new United States of America… which hardly resembled the old structure.
It was the beginning of taxation without representation… The complete reversal of everything Americans fought for and achieved during the American Revolution.
It began the era of the American Empire. A centralized government, large enough to do whatever it wanted without restraint.
Too large for the people to control through representative democracy.
We still have a chance to be represented in state governments. But secession is a topic for another day…
1913 was the official dawn of the American brand of communism: Progressivism.
Wisconsin gets much of the foul credit for creating this destructive subversion of our Constitutional government.
You could make an excellent case for Woodrow Wilson being the worst President in American history, James Buchanan and Barack Obama notwithstanding.
From 1789 until 1913, the inflation rate was -20%. Since the introduction of the Federal Reserve, the inflation rate has been over 3000%.