1. ROOSEVELT, TAFT, & WILSON

2. Who is the only U.S. President to serve as a Supreme Court Justice?
ANSWER: William Howard Taft

3. Election of 1908 Platform Platform William Howard Taft (R)
William Jennings Bryan (D)
Platform
Break up trusts
Improve worker safety
Admit New Mexico and Arizona as states
Platform
Claimed to be a more effective reformer than Taft
Wanted railroads to be nationalized

4. Election of 1908
Taft
Bryan

5. Election of 1908 Platform Pop Vote: 7,678,395 Electoral Vote: 321
William Howard Taft (R)
William Jennings Bryan (D)
Platform
Break up trusts
Improve worker safety
Admit New Mexico and Arizona as states
Pop Vote: 7,678,395
Electoral Vote: 321
Platform
Claimed to be a more effective reformer than Taft
Wanted railroads to be nationalized
Pop Vote: 6,408,984
Electoral Vote: 162

6. William Howard Taft (R 1909-1913)

7. Presidency Strict Constitutionalist Lower the tariff
Deals with a split Republican Party
“Old Guard” vs the Progressives
The real “trustbuster”
Broke up more than 90 trusts
16th Amendment (1913)
Income Tax
Dollar Diplomacy
Chinese Railroad

8. Taft Cartoon

9. Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act (1909)
Taft promised to lower the tariff
Calls Congress into special session to do this
Payne Bill
Lowered the tariff
Senator Aldrich proposes bill raising tariffs
Bill created the raised the tariff
La Follete takes issue to Taft
Taft felt he should not involve himself

10. Ballinger-Pinchot Affair
Ballinger – Secretary of the Interior
Oil Baron
Ballinger gives oil companies permission to drill experimental wells in Newlands areas
Pinchot furious
Taft says Ballinger is within his rights to do this
Fires Pinchot

11. Uncle “Joe” Cannon Speaker of the House
Abused his power as Speaker of the House
Rest of Congress wants him gone
Taft agrees to help
Taft fails to get Cannon removed

12. Election of 1912 William Howard Taft (R) Woodrow Wilson (D)
Theodore Roosevelt (Bull Moose)
Eugene V. Debs
(Socialist)

13. Wilson “New Freedom” More progressive than Taft
Regulated free enterprise
Against trusts and monopolies
Triple Wall of Privilege
Banks, trusts, tariffs
Hurt small farmers
More progressive than Taft
Less radical than Roosevelt

14. Election of 1912 William Howard Taft (R) Woodrow Wilson (D)
Theodore Roosevelt (Bull Moose)
Eugene V. Debs
(Socialist)
Pop Vote: 3,486,242
Electoral Vote: 8
Pop Vote: 6,296,284
Electoral Vote: 435
Pop Vote: 4,122,721
Electoral Vote: 88
Pop Vote: 901,551
Electoral Vote: 0

15. What other time in U.S. history did the sitting president finish 3rd in the electoral college?
Aaron Burr
Thomas Jefferson
ANSWER: Election of 1800
John Adams

16. Woodrow Wilson (D )

17. Presidency Clayton Antitrust Act (1914) Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
Eliminate unfair business practices
Underwood Act (1913)
Lowered the tariff from 41% - 27%
Moral Diplomacy
U.S. has a moral responsibility to protect American interests in Latin America
World War I

18. Federal Reserve System
Intended to stabilize the economy
Divided the nation into 12 regional districts
Assigned each district a federal bank
Determine interest rates
Depends on the status of money supply
Still around today

19. Federal Reserve Map

20. 19th Amendment Carrie Chapman Catt National Women’s Party
Revives the women’s suffrage movement
National Women’s Party
Much more radical than NAWSA
Pickett the White House
19th Amendment ratified 1920

21. Mexico Mexican Revolution General John J. Pershing
three different rulers of Mexico
General John J. Pershing
Sent in to chase out Villa
February 1917 U.S. backs out of Mexico

22. Mexican Conflict

23. Election of 1916 “He kept us out of the war!” Supreme Court Justice
Woodrow Wilson
Charles Evan Hughes
“He kept us out of the war!”
Supreme Court Justice
War was inevitable
Wanted U.S. to begin preparing

24. Election of 1916
Wilson
Hughes

25. Election of 1916 “He kept us out of the war!” Pop Vote: 9,126,868
Woodrow Wilson
Charles Evan Hughes
“He kept us out of the war!”
Pop Vote: 9,126,868
Electoral Vote: 277
Supreme Court Justice
War was inevitable
Wanted US to begin preparing
Pop Vote: 8,548,728
Electoral Vote: 254