Although a financial panic and sharp depression hit the nation in 1907, President Roosevelt remained popular. The Republican nomination was his for the asking, but having served almost two full terms, he chose not to run again. The Republicans then turned to William Howard Taft, who easily won the 1908 election. In some ways, Taft carried on Roosevelt's reform program. But as his term wore on, progressives became more and more unhappy with his actions.
Taft Administration Video
Your Assignment:
1.) Describe the reforms carried out by President Taft.
2.) Explain why Taft lost the progressives' support.
3.) What were the results of the 1912 election.
Due: Sunday 11/13/11 by no later than 11:59p.m.
1..raised taxes and thatdidnt please the american people
ReplyDelete2..opened lands for only private use was not open to the public
3..taft losts to democratic party won
1. He carried out the task of picking a person to fill his shoes while he did not do another term.
ReplyDelete2. After former President Theodore Roosevelt failed to receive the Republican nomination, he called his own convention and created the Progressive Party (nicknamed the "Bull Moose Party"). It nominated Roosevelt and ran candidates for other offices in major states.
3. Incumbent President William Howard Taft was renominated by the Republican Party
1.) President Taft picked someone to fill in for him so he didn't do another term.
ReplyDelete2.) He created the Progressive Party and also opened landds for only private use.
3.) President Taft was renominated but lost.
1. Raised taxes that upset people.
ReplyDelete2. He made new laws that blocked off certain land and made his own convention.
3. President Taft was renominated by the Republican Party with the support of its conservative wing.President Theodore Roosevelt failed to receive the Republican nomination.
1.)Born in 1857, the son of a distinguished judge, he graduated from Yale, and returned to Cincinnati to study and practice law. He rose in politics through Republican judiciary appointments, through his own competence and availability, and because, as he once wrote facetiously, he always had his "plate the right side up when offices were falling."
ReplyDelete2.) Taft much preferred law to politics. He was appointed a Federal circuit judge at 34. He aspired to be a member of the Supreme Court, but his wife, Helen Herron Taft, held other ambitions for him
3.) 1912, when the Republicans renominated Taft, Roosevelt bolted the party to lead the Progressives, thus guaranteeing the election of Woodrow Wilson.
1) he had someone do what he did best while he didnt do anything .
ReplyDelete2)oped land for only private use.
3)Taft was renominated but failed to succeed.
1)The split in the Republican Party allowed the Democratic candidate, Woodrow Wilson, to win the presidency. He continued Progressive reform until the nation became bogged down with concern over World War I.
ReplyDelete2)Most important the anti-trust policies. He had 90 Anti-trust suits. He passes the Mann-Elkins Act, that regulated the telephone and telegram companies
3)Wilson won a lopsided electoral victory in November 1912
1 taft reformed taxes, and the Payne Aldrich Tariff act.
ReplyDelete2 he snuck around other peoples back to stay
3 it was a four way contest but taft won
1.)He picked a person to fill his shoes so he didn't have to do another term.
ReplyDelete2.)He ended up calling his own convention and created the Progressive party.
3.)Nominated Roosevelt and ran candidates for other offices in major states. Democrat Woodrow Wilson was finally nominated on the 46th ballot of a contentious convention, thanks to the support of William Jennings Bryan, the three-time Democratic presidential candidate who still had a large and loyal following in 1912.
1.Taft spent four uncomfortable years in the White House.
ReplyDelete2.Taft was renominated by the Republican Party with the support of its conservative wing.
3.In 1912, former president Theodore Roosevelt sought the Republican nomination at the convention in Chicago.
1. Taft picked someone to fill in for him so that he didn't need to do another term.
ReplyDelete2. after Roosevelt failed to receive the nomination, he called his own convention and created the progressive party.
3. taft was renominated but then lost.
1.) Taft had several reforms such as the Mann-Elkins Act and the 16th amendment which changed taxes.
ReplyDelete2.) They said he betrayed the reform cause because he signed a bill and that he sabotaged Roosevelts campaign.
3.) Woodrow Wilson was elected president because of the split republican vote.
1) He raised the taxes.
ReplyDelete2)Made a new law that blocked some land off.
3) He didn't have any votes from the Republican people.
1) Taft introduced the Payne-Aldrich Tariff of 1909. Many people thought that this added excessive tariffs. Taft called this "the best bill that the Republican Party ever passed."
ReplyDelete2) People started to doubt his morals. The public then found with time that Taft was much different from Roosevelt. Also, when Taft fired the well-liked Pinchot, people supported him even less.
3) Roosevelt tried to get back in the Republican party but was unable due to technical reasons. He then started his own party and ran for president that way. They made Taft and Roosevelt split the vote so Wilson easily won the election.
1.he pledged his loyalty to the Roosevelt program.Taft recognized that his techniques would differ from those of his predecessor. Unlike Roosevelt, Taft did not believe in the stretching of Presidential powers.
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2.he created a progressive party, and it nominated roosevelt.
3.1912 was a rare four-way contest.[1] Incumbent President William Howard Taft was renominated by the Republican Party with the support of its conservative wing. After former President Theodore Roosevelt failed to receive the Republican nomination, he called his own convention and created the Progressive Party. It nominated Roosevelt and ran candidates for other offices in major states.
1.) Taft had several reforms such as the Mann-Elkins Act and he also had the sixteenth amendment.
ReplyDelete2.)He created his own convention and started the progressive party.
3.)Taft was renominated by the Republican party but then lost to Woodrow Wilson.
1.)He rasied taxes and Americans didn't like that at all.
ReplyDelete2.)He and others got private land and didn't share any of it with the people.
3.)William lost to the democratic party who won that election.
1-raised taxes what the people don't like
ReplyDelete2- the lands is just for the private use and not everybody
3-Taft was renominated, by the Republican Party.
1. The reforms raised taxes and tariffs, which didn't make people very happy.
ReplyDelete2. Taft started doing things opposite of what Roosevelt did. And was very...non-progressive.
3. Woodrow Wilson became president.