27. William Howard Taft

Political Party

Republican

Standard Oil vs. The US (1911)

The Supreme Court of the US found Standard Oil guilty of monopolizing the petroleum industry

Election of 1908

William H. Taft- Republican - Theodore Roosevelt's handpicked successor progressive ideas -William Jennings Bryan - Democrat - remember, he ran for president - Eugene W. Debs

VP

James Sherman

Stated elected from

Ohio

Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy (1910)

-Accused of favoring private business over conservation -Taft supports conservation -But not as strongly as Roosevelt did.

Mann Act/ Mann Elkins (1910)

-Set a maximum haul rate for RR's -Placed the telephone & telegraph industries under the regulation of the ICC

Payne-Aldrich Tariff (1908)

-Taft favored low tariffs -He was not strong enough to oppose -A very high Tariff bill -Created high tariffs on iron ore, coal, & fur/leather -Tariff split the Republican Party

WEB DuBrois/NAACP formed (1908)

-The Nation Association for the Advancement of Colored People Combined -Booker T. Washington's accommodationist organizations with - WEB Dubois's militant Niagara Movement

Dollar Diplomacy/Latin America (1909)

-US should use economic influence instead of military force -"substituting dollars for bullets" -promoted American business interests abroad

Model T/ assembly line (1908)

-With the assembly line -Purchase price of $825.00 -Ford was able to reduce the assembly time of a Model T from 12 1/2 hrs to less than 6 hr.

Born/died

1857-1930

Muller v. Oregon (1908)

1908 Supreme Court case that challenged a law limiting women to a 10 hr wk day. it kept the law

Dates in office

1909 - 1913

Dawes Act of 1909

700,000 acres of former tribal land is opened to white settlers