Taft and Wilson

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• Taft and Wilson

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Election 1908
Republican Party Roosevelt pledged not to run
for reelection, and chose Taft to run for
president. Democratic Party William Jennings
Bryan
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Election 1908
Taft was supposed to follow up all of Roosevelts
progressive policies
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Election of 1908
Bryan wanted a federal income tax, a lower
tariff, and new anti-trust laws. Taft wins the
election.
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Tafts Administration

• Cautious, little credit for his accomplishments
• Busted 90 trusts in four years, twice as many
  as TR

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Tafts Administration

• Tariffs Taft signed the Payne-Aldrich Tariff
  which kept many tariffs on manufactured goods.
• Progressives angered by this.

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Tafts Administration

• Conservationists angered when conservation land,
  1 million acres, in the west was sold off to
  private companies who resold it to large
  corporations.

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Tafts Administration

• Pinchot worked for the Dept. of Interior and
  complained, was fired, and wrote a muckraking
  article
• on exploitation of natural resources.

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The Republican Party Splits

• Some wanted progressive reforms and believed Taft
  was against conservation. People believed that
  Payne-Aldrich was the cause of the rising cost of
  living.

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The Bull Moose Party
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The Candidates Republican Democratic Bull
Moose (The Progressive Party) Socialist
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The Election of 1912
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Wilsons Administration
Background Clayton-Anti Trust Act Federal
Trade Commission
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Wilsons Administration
Samuel Gompers Deregulation Underwood Tariff
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Wilsons Administration
Federal Income Tax 16th Amendment Federal
Reserve Act Federal Reserve System
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Wilsons Administration
Womens Right to Vote NAWSA Carrie Chapman
Catt Susan B. Anthony 19th Amendment
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Wilsons Administration
Limits to Progressivism Civil Rights WWI
breaks out 1914