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| Expanded power of Interstate Commerce Commission. |
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-Roosevelt's handpicked successor.
-Continued T.R.'s policies.
-Expanded National Forest Land
-Mann-Elkins Act |
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| Reason for Split of Republican Party |
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-Taft fired Gifford Pinchot
-Antitrust suit against US Steel and Tennessee Coal and Iron Company merger.
-Republicans and Progressive developing major differences.
-Roosevelt was angry with Taft (could not get Republican nomination in 1912). |
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| Progressive (The new 3rd party) nominated Theodore Roosevelt for President. |
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| Reason for the split of the Republican Party. |
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| Significance of Election of 1912 |
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| 4 parties: Democrat (Wilson), Republican (Taft), Socialist (Debs), and Progressive (Roosevelt). |
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