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Election of 1912
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Split Ticket• Presidential election of 1912– Wilson (D) • New Freedom campaign
– Taft (R)– T. Roosevelt (BM)• New Nationalism campaign
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TAFT• Republican• Wanting to preserve the
conservative values of the party.
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TAFTParty Platform:
High import tariffs.
Put limitations on female and child labor.
Workman’s Compensation Laws.
Against initiative, referendum, and recall.
Against “bad” trusts.
Creation of a Federal Trade Commission.
Stay on the gold standard.
Conservation of natural resources because they are finite.
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ROOSEVELT• In 1904 TR vows not to run for
re-election after his second term.
• He hand picks his successor William Howard Taft who wins easily in 1908.
• “Some people felt that TAFT stood for Takes Advice From Teddy
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The hurt Republican
Party…
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ROOSEVELT• The Progressive Party aka The Bull Moose Party• Party Platform:
Women’s suffrage.
Graduated income tax.
Inheritance tax for the rich.
Lower tariffs.
Limits on campaign spending.
Currency reform.
Minimum wage laws.
Social insurance.
Abolition of child labor.
Workmen’s compensation.
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WILSON• Democratic Party Platform:
Government control of the monopolies trusts in general were bad and should be eliminates!
Tariff reduction.
One-term President.
Direct election of Senators.
Create a Department of Labor.
Strengthen the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
Did NOT support women’s suffrage.
Opposed to a central bank.
New
Freedom
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Wilson Wins!• First Democrat to win since 1897.
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Who is Wilson?• Could not read until 10. • His first name is Thomas and he was called "Tommy" until his college
years. • Was the first president to attend the Major League Baseball Fall
Classic. He saw the debut of a young 20 year old pitcher by the name of George Herman "Babe" Ruth.
• Was a graduate of Princeton University and the only president to hold an earned doctoral degree.
• Image is on the $100,000 bill although it is no longer in circulation. • Ellen Wilson, Wilson's first wife and mother of their three daughters,
died of Bright's Disease and passed away in the White House on August 14, 1914.
• Woodrow Wilson remarried on December 18, 1915 to Edith Galt. • Sheep grazed on the White House lawn to help the Red Cross raise wool
for the war effort. • The national observance of Mother's Day was established.
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Key Issues…
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Key Issues…• Tariff Reform
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Key Issues…• Conservation
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Key Issues…• Suffrage
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Key Issues…• Lynching
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NEW FREEDOM
NEW NATIONALISM