27. William Howard Taft

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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


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