Post on 30-Dec-2015
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Section 4
Progressivism Under Taft
• 1908 Taft Becomes President– TR does not run again– Helps Taft get elected
• Taft Splits the Republican Party– How?
– Seemed to go back on Progressive Promises
• Payne Aldrich Tariff– Started out to lower– Bill changed, actually raised– Progressives feel betrayed
– Argument over land• Ballinger-Pinchot Affair
– Ballinger did not like Pinchot use of land
– Taft fired Pinchot– Progressives mad
• Election of 1912– TR comes back and starts
3rd Party: Bull Moose– Now Republicans are split in
3, no majority vote– Wilson (Democrat) wins
election