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President WilliamHowardTaft
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•Hand picked by RooseveltAvid "trust buster"•Had a falling out with TR over conservation•Sided with “Old Guard” Republicans
According to this factual recording of the election of 2000, who won?
• 50,456,002-Popular Vote
• 47.87%-Percentage of Popular Vote
• 50,999,897-Popular Vote
• 48.38%-Percentage of Popular Vote
So how did Bush win?
Election Of…
Today we will be able to:
Analyze why Woodrow Wilson won the election of 1912 by examining each of the four candidates, their policies, and how each affected the outcome of the race.
Eugene V. Debs
• Socialist Party candidate in 1908, 1912, and 1920 • Leader of American Railway Union during Pullman
Strike (1894) • Socialist Party called for the collective (social)
ownership of factories, mines, and businesses• Completely reject capitalism• For the worker and the little guy
William Howard Taft
• Howard Taft, the incumbent President
• Hand picked by TR as successor• Disliked being president
– Not used as a Bully Pulpit• Roosevelt Upset over Taft’s
Failure to exert strong public Leadership
• Viewed by republican progressives as too conservative
• Some look for an alternate candidate
Theodore Roosevelt
Returned for African safari trip disappointed (with Taft)
Tried to win Republican nomination but lost
Left party and joined Progressive party
• AKA= Bull Moose Party• Divided the republican party
between Taft and Roosevelt supporters
• Time: Election of 1912
• Question:
• Who does the moose, elephant, and donkey represent?
• What does the cartoon suggest about the election?
Woodrow Wilson • Governor of New Jersey• Chosen after 45 votes
and Disagreements• represented the
Democratic party• Experience included:
– President of Princeton University
– Governor of New Jersey
• Considered the ‘safe’ candidate by the political machine
Wilson:
• Elimination of all monopolies
• Freedom to all small companies and businesses
• drastic tariff reduction
• banking reform• more strict on antitrust laws
Roosevelt:
• Elimination of “bad” monopolies, keep good ones
• End child labor• Workman’s compensation• Federal Trade Commission
(to regulate trade/business)
• Minimum wage/suffrage for women
• Initiative, referendum, and recall
New FreedomNew Nationalism
Political Spectrum
• Theodore Roosevelt split the Republican party, grouping in the “Progressive Party”, and Taft was a Republican
• Taft was defeated by Roosevelt • However, Roosevelt did not snatch the winning of many
Democratic progressives away from Woodrow Wilson
ELECTORAL VOTES
Significance -Election is the “high water mark” of the
progressive movement
All candidates were progressive (to some degree) all candidates did not question whether or not society needed
reform, but more of how to reform.
-New Nationalism vs. New Freedom
Winner: Woodrow Wilson
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