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Theodore Roosevelt caused he because he wanted to become president again during William Howard tafts term and the Congress said no so he formed his own progressive party also known as the bull moose party.

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· Progressive party (A.K.A. Bull Moose Party) was a branch off of the republican party

· Taft and Roosevelt ended up with 50% of the vote

o Wilson had 43%

§ It split up something like this

· Taft: 25%

· Roosevelt: 25%

· Wilson: 43%

· Wilson became president because he had the majority of the votes

Taft and Roosevelt split the vote because technically they were both republicans and the vote should go to both of them, so it was split and Wilson won the election

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It was because of conflicts between Taft and Roosevelt. In 1908, Roosevelt didn’t want to run for reelection, instead recommend his Secretary of War, William Howard Taft, who had the ideals as him. However, Taft’s approach was more careful, and quiet. Taft also lacked his expansive view of presidential power, he was a more successful administrator than a politician. However, at first, he initiated about 80 antitrust suits against large industrial combinations–twice as many as Roosevelt. But, he later stop “trust-busting”, and in general aligned himself with the more conservative members of the Republican Party. In 1909, Taft’s Payne-Aldrich Act was passed, the act did little to lower tariffs. Though more progressive Republicans expected Taft to veto the bill, he still signed it into law and publicly defended it as “the best tariff bill that the Republican Party ever passed.” During, his presidency, his decision to dismiss Ballinger’s leading critic, Gifford Pinchot, a conservationist and close friend of Roosevelt, break the last straw. Roosevelt left the Republican Party and create his own progressive party, the Bull mouse Party. In 1912 Roosevelt ran against Taft.

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Taft achieve a number of progressive reforms. Because he became allied with conservative republicans rather than Roosevelt's progressive republican.

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The Republican party split during the 1912 presidential election campaign because Taft controlled the Republican Party leadership. Roosevelt and his supporters stormed out of the convention

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Because they disagreed with one another. There were radical and moderate republicans. They both didn't want slavery, but the reunification process was different for both parties.

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The Republican Party split during Taft's presidency because of the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act. It increased tariffs it angered the Progressive part of the Republican Party.

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Theodore Roosevelt ran on the "Bull Moose" ticket and pulled a lot of republican-minded voters. This resulted in Democrat Woodrow Wilson becoming the 28th President of the United States.

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Why did the republican party split during Taft administration?

The election of 1912 created a split within the Republican party with the formation of the Progressive party.


What third party split the republican party in the election of 1912?

The Bull Moose party who ran TR.


In 1912 the Republican Party split and the result was the Progressive Party that played this role in the election?

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Why did the republic party split during the progressive era?

The Republican party has never split. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt, broke from the Republicans ,formed his own party and ran against the Republican president.


What was a direct result of the policy disagreement between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft?

The split in the Republican Party in the 1912 Presidential Election, Teddy Roosevelt starting the Progressive Party, and the eventual election of Woodrow Wilson due to the 3 way split in 1912.


What candidate in the presidential election of 1912 benefited most from the split the republican party?

Woodrow Wilson


What actions led to the defeat of Taft in 1912?

The Payne-Aldrich Bill. It split the Republican party in two.


What factor helped Woodrow Wilson win the of 1912?

Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party split the Republican.


How did the democrats win the 1912 election?

The Democrats won the 1912 election due to a split within the Republican Party. Former President Theodore Roosevelt ran as a third-party candidate for the Progressive Party, splitting the Republican vote. This division allowed Democrat Woodrow Wilson to secure a victory and become the 28th President of the United States.


What new party formed after the whig party split?

The Republican Party.


Woodrow Wilson won the Presidential election of 1912 partly due to?

Woodrow Wilson won the Presidential election in 1912 due to Theodore Roosevelt's decision to start his own party. Roosevelt didn't get the Republican nomination so he broke off and created the Progressive Party.


What was a result of the policy disagreement between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft?

The split in the Republican Party in the 1912 Presidential Election, Teddy Roosevelt starting the Progressive Party, and the eventual election of Woodrow Wilson due to the 3 way split in 1912.