Examples of Bull Moose Party in the following topics:
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- Differences between Republicans Taft and Roosevelt served to split the Republican party, resulting in Democrat Wilson's win in 1912.
- The results of the 1910 elections made it clear to Taft that Roosevelt no longer supported his presidency, and that he might even contend for the party nomination in 1912.
- Taft acknowledged this, saying, "the longer I am President, the less of a party man I seem to become. " In February, 1912, Roosevelt declared his candidacy for the Republican nomination.
- As a result of Taft's success in securing the nomination, Roosevelt and his group of disgruntled party members officially split from the party to create the Progressive Party (or "Bull Moose Party") ticket, splitting the Republican vote in the 1912 election.
- Although the 1912 election was a disaster for the Republicans, Taft was optimistic that defeat would force Republicans "to gather again to the party standard and pledge anew their faith in their party's principles. " In other words, Taft saw his defeat as an opportunity for the fractured Republican party, plagued by political bickering and scandal, to reunite around the conservative party standard in future political contests.
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- Defeating Theodore Roosevelt's third-party "Bull Moose" candidacy in 1912, Wilson went on to enact sweeping Progressive reforms of his own.
- Running against Progressive ("Bull Moose") Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt and Republican candidate William Howard Taft, Wilson was elected president as a Democrat with a wide margin of victory in 1912.
- Taft acknowledged this, saying, "the longer I am President, the less of a party man I seem to become."
- As a result of Taft's success in securing the nomination, Roosevelt and his group of disgruntled party members officially split from the party to create the Progressive Party (or "Bull Moose Party") ticket, splitting the Republican vote in the 1912 election.
- Taft thought that, despite probable defeat, the Republican party had been preserved as "the defender of conservative government and conservative institutions."
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- The United States presidential election of 1912 was a three-way contest between incumbent William Howard Taft (renominated by the Republican Party with the support of the conservative wing), former president Theodore Roosevelt (nominated by the Progressive, or Bull-MooseParty), and Democrat Woodrow Wilson.
- Debs also ran again as the nominee of the Socialist Party of America.
- With few exceptions, the Socialist party had weak or nonexistent links to local labor unions.
- Failing to make itself a believable third party, the Bull Moose Party ended up losing strength.
- Its candidates did poorly in 1914, and the party vanished in 1916 with most members following Roosevelt back into the Republican fold.
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- As a leader of the Republican Party, he became a driving force during the Progressive Era in the early twentieth century.
- Leading his party and country into the Progressive Era, he championed his "Square Deal" domestic policies, promising the average citizen fairness, the breaking of trusts, regulation of railroads, and pure food and drugs.
- Roosevelt founded his own Progressive party, the Bull Moose Party, and called for wide-ranging Progressive reforms.
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- During Reconstruction, high tariffs were the norm as the Republican Party maintained power and the Southern Democrats were restricted from office.
- The act was signed enthusiastically by Taft in 1909, who believed that the compromise would preserve party unity.
- Taft's public support of the bill, instead of preserving party unity, further split the Republicans.
- This group of Progressive Republicans eventually formed the Bull Moose Party, which selected Roosevelt as its presidential nominee in the 1912 election.
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- Most of the support came from Democrats, but Theodore Roosevelt and his third party, the Bull Moose Party, also supported such goals as the eight-hour work day, improved safety and health conditions in factories, workers' compensation laws, and minimum wage laws for women.
- During the beginning of the 20th century, as women's suffrage faced several important federal votes, a portion of the suffrage movement known as the National Women's Party led by suffragette Alice Paul became the first "cause" to picket outside the White House.
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- In the general sense, a trust is a centuries-old form of a contract in which one party entrusts its property to a second party.
- Most of the support came from Democrats, but Theodore Roosevelt and his third party, the Bull Moose Party, also supported such goals as the eight-hour work day, improved safety and health conditions in factories, workers' compensation laws, and minimum-wage laws for women.
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- Politically, progressives belonged to a wide range of parties: with leaders from both the Democratic and Republican parties as well as the Bull-Moose Republicans, Lincoln–Roosevelt League Republicans (in California) and the United States Progressive Party.
- Rather than any dominating party affiliation, therefore, American progressives shared a common goal of wielding federal power to pursue a sweeping range of social, environmental, political, and economic reforms.
- In sum, the "Progressive Era" is a broadly construed term that refers to a myriad of social, cultural, and political reform movements advocated by otherwise disparate interest groups and political parties that were reacting to the modernizing, industrializing economic and social situation that arose by the turn of the century.
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- Politically, Progressives of this era belonged to a wide range of parties and had leaders from the Democratic and Republican parties, as well as from the Bull-Moose Republicans, Lincoln-Roosevelt League Republicans (in California), and the United States Progressive Party.
- Rather than affiliating with a dominant party, American Progressives shared a common goal of wielding federal power to pursue a sweeping range of social, environmental, political, and economic reforms.
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- Although the Progressive Era was a period of broad reform movements and social progress, it was also characterized by loose, multiple, and contradictory goals that impeded the efforts of reformers and often pitted political leaders against one another, most drastically in the Republican Party.
- Furthermore, despite the Bull Moose Party's declaration of a Progressive Party Platform, the American public viewed it more as coalition of fervent Roosevelt supporters, rather than any comprehensive party platform that accounted for the range of Progressive concerns.