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