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