Thursday, October 15, 2009

1. How did William Howard Taft get selected to run for president?
He was secretary of war for Roosevelt and was picked to run against William Jennings Bryan for presidency.

2. How did Teddy Roosevelt come to oppose Taft for the presidency in 1912?
Taft made some dicisions that went against what Roosevelt had believed:
-Attempted to break up U.S. Steel (a trust that Roosevelt had sponsored during his presidency.
-Forced Roosevelt's Forestry Chief to resign (threatening Roosevelt's progress in preserving the west)
-Roosevelt saw Taft and his administration as abandoning progressivism.
3. What events helped Woodrow Wilson win the election in 1912?

4. What legislation did Wilson use to attack trusts and monopolies?
Wilson's path to presidency was marked by many pilitical and educational positions each one having more power than that of the one before:
In 1900 he taught political science at Princeton (the college)
In 1902 he became the president of Princeton
In 1910 many conservative Democrats saw Wilson's potential political talent and urged him to become governor of New Jersey, which he soon did that same year.
In 1912 he was nominated for U.S. President by the Democratic convention.

5. What was the Nineteenth Amendment?
Ratified in August of 1920 the 19th amendment allowed woman suffrage.

6. How did America's entry into World War I affect the reform movement?

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