William Howard Taft's Domestic Policy
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Pinchot-Ballinger Controversy
Taft fired Pinchot for criticizing new department of the interior head, Richard Ballinger, who opened public lands in Alaska for private investment
Midterm elections of 1910
Taft openly supported conservative candidates
Payne-Aldrich Tariff (1909)
Conservative Republicans passed this tariff in 1909, which raised the tariff on most imports
Mann-Elkins Act of 1910
Gave the ICC the power to suspend new railroad rates and oversee telephone, telegraph, and cable companies
Sixteenth Amendment (1913)
Authorized the U.S. government to collect an income tax