According to Chapter 22, how was the 1912 election a contest "between two brands of progressivism, expressing two different views of America's future"?
1912 election
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1913 tariff
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Democrat Woodrow Wilson vs Republican William Howard Taft vs Bull Moose Theodore Roosevelt vs Socialist Eugene Debs
Roosevelt's New Nationalism at Osawatomie Kansas 1910 advocated a strong federal government with a "steward" president who defended human welfare over property, supported income and inheritance taxes, workers comp, tariff revision, regulation of child labor and corporations
Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection Act, Hepburn Railroad Regulation Act, John Muir and Gifford Pinchot, allowed J.P. Morgan to enlarge U.S. Steel to help end Panic of 1907
Taft more antitrust than Roosevelt, filed suit against U.S. Steel 1911
Wilson "concentrated the powers of the executive branch in his own hands" even more than Theodore Roosevelt.
Underwood-Simmons Tariff and graduated income tax "succeeded where Roosevelt and Taft had not."
Federal Reserve Act shifted control of banks from the "money trust" to the federal government - 1
Wilson's "New Freedom differed most clearly from the New Nationalism in its approach to economic policy and the trusts."
Wilson and Brandeis sought to destroy monopoly, not regulate it
But the New Freedom changed: FTC and Clayton Antitrust Act - 1
Wilson appointed Brandeis to the Supreme Court
Wilson "moved even closer to the New Nationalism" by expanding government regulation: Keating-Owen Act regulating child labor, increasing federal tax on child labor products, Smith-Lever provided federal funds for agricultural colleges