Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Progressive Era Presidents Taft and Wilson

1. How did William Howard Taft get selected to run for president?
Taft said that he wouldn't be the same president they had had for the past 2 terms.
2. How did Teddy Roosevelt come to oppose Taft for the presidency in 1912?
Roosevelt became oppose to Taft for presidence because Taft was ruining all the things that Roosevelt worked hard to fix.
3. What events helped Woodrow Wilson win the election in 1912?
That Teddy Roosevelt and Taft were in a great arguement and so he stayed out of it and then won an overwelling amount of electoral votes.
4. What legislation did Wilson use to attack trusts and monopolies?
Wilson supported small business and free-market competition.
5. What was the Nineteenth Amendment?
Granting women the right to vote.
6. How did America's entry into World War II affect the reform movement?
It ended the Progressive Era

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