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| With WHO having been the "outs" since YEAR, they were eager in the 1912 election because... |
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Democrats, 1897
With both Roosevelt and Taft running, the Republican party was split, meaning that if Democrats got the right reformer, they could take advantage of this and win. |
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| "When democrats met at Baltimore in 1912, WW was nominated on the # ballot, aided by ___'s switch to his side. The Democrats gave WW a strong progressive platform on which to run; dubbed the "___" program, it included (name 3). |
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| 46th, WJ Bryan, New Freedom, stronger antitrust legislation/banking reform/tariff reductions |
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| Dramatically symbolizing the rising political status of women, as well as Progressive support for the cause of social justice, WHO did WHAT? |
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| Jane Addams placed Roosevelt's name in nomination for the presidency. |
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| Who said it: "We stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord" |
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| Roosevelt, upon accepting his nomination at the Progressive party convention in August. |
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| TR and Taft tore each other apart in 1912, with Taft calling Roosevelt a "dangerous egotist" and a "demagogue," while TR called Taft a a "fathead" with the brain of a "guinea pig." |
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| Describe TR's brand of Progressivism |
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-Roosevelt's New Nationalism
--followed Croly's "The Promise of American Life"
--consolidate trusts and labor unions, paralleled by the growth of powerful regulatory agencies in Washington
-women's suffrage
-munnimum-wage laws
-social insurance
-similar to aspects of New Deal
-WW's New Freedom |
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| Similarities between WW/TR's progressivism |
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Similarities:
-both favored a more active government role in economic and social affairs |
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| Describe WW's brand of progressivism |
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-small enterprise
-entrepreneurship
-free functioning of unregulated and unmonopolized markets
-shunned social welfare, relied on economic connection
-not regulation, but fragmentation of trusts, esp. by enforcement of anti-trust laws. |
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