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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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