1. From 1908 to 1912
What would he decide to do?
What did he accomplish?
What did he hope for?
What did he get?
What did he do?
1912 Election

6. What did he accomplish?
security
freedom R D

7. What did he accomplish?
security
freedom R D

8. What did he accomplish?
security
freedom R D

9. What did he accomplish?
equality
security
freedom R D

10. What did he hope for? Tariff revision () Continued regulation
Continued “trust busting”
Continued conservation
Vigorous foreign policy

11. Tariff Revision
Lower Tariffs  More Foreign Goods Increased Competition Lower Prices Happier Consumers Less Government Revenue Federal Tax Code Revision – Income Tax

12. What did he get? Bathtub Taft’s Temperament
Payne – Aldrich Tariff Controversy, 1909
Ballinger – Pinchot Dispute

13. Taft’s Political Temperament
security
freedom R D
Supreme Court Factor

15. TR’s Land Conservationists!!!!
TR - President
James R. Garfield
Secretary of Interior
Gifford Pinchot
Chief of Forrest Service

16. Taft’s Land Conservationists?
Gifford Pinchot
Chief of Forrest Service
Richard Ballinger
Secretary of Interior
Taft - President

18. Taft’s Land Conservationists?
Gifford Pinchot
Chief of Forrest Service
Richard Ballinger
Secretary of Interior
Taft - President

20. Payne – Aldrich Tariff Controversy
Rep. Sereno Payne (R –NY)
Sen. Nelson Aldrich (R- RI)
signed by Taft in 1909
lowered the general tariff rate from 46% to 41%
contained excise tax on corporate profits
 650 tariff items,  220 and left 1,150 untouched
net result ... did very little … except anger TR

21. What did he do?
“My hat is in the ring….”
The 1912 Republican Primary !?!?!?!
The Progressive Party

26. 1912 Election
Overview
Candidates
Outcome

27. Hamiltonian means to Jeffersonian ends…
Overview
Hamiltonian means to Jeffersonian ends… S P R D D

28. Overview
“equality”
“security”
“liberty”
“freedom” S P R D D

29. Eugene Debs
Socialist
Woodrow Wilson
Democrat
Theodore Roosevlet
Progressive
William Taft
Republican

30. EUGENE
DEBS
Socialist Party
4th attempt for president
means of production:
government owned
government run
change via radical means
government assured:
health
employment
education
redistribute $$$$ via taxes
WOODROW
WILSON
Democrat Party
“New Freedom”
end monopolies
encourage small business
collective bargaining laws
tariff reduction
federal income tax
banking reform
THEODORE
ROOSEVELT
Progressive Party
“New Nationalism”
regulate monopolies
women’s suffrage
direct election of Senators
minimum wage
national health service
8 hr. day; 6 day week
prohibit child labor
WILLIAM
TAFT
Republican Party
high, protective tariff
immigration restrictions

31. The Outcome – Popular Vote%TR
Progressive
≈27% 
Eugene V. Debs
Socialist
≈7% 
Woodrow Wilson
Democrat
≈43% 
William H. Taft
Republican
≈22% 

34. Pro Consumer
Pro Business

35. 1909 P-A Tariff: general tariff rate lowered from 46% to 41% … lowered 650 tariff items, raised 220 and left 1,150 untouched.
Pro Consumer
Pro Business

41. Progressivism
1900
1920
Roosevelt Taft Wilson
Imperialism

44. Agenda Thank You For Your Cooperation Yesterday  My Apologies … 
The “Great Divorce” of 1912 (listen)
Page 6: 1912 Election (watch)
Page 7: The Wilson Years
Economics 101
Wilson’s Blind Spots
Collect Homework
AP Exam Registration

45. The Outcome – Popular Vote%TR
Progressive
≈27% 
Eugene V. Debs
Socialist
≈7% 
Woodrow Wilson
Democrat
≈43% 
William H. Taft
Republican
≈22% 