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
1913 tariff


  • 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