We finished tafts background yesterday and then started with drake on blog discussions. Teddy Roosevelt picked Taft to be a successor. Dollar Diplomacy - way of sending money to other countries, allowed people to loan money to the government, diplomacy is how we deal with other countries. 16th amendment is the graduated tax income. Taft was not liked well, wasn't a great speaker, no energy, removed land that Teddy set aside, not like Roosevelt. The Republicans split into old-guard republicans and progressive republicans due to problems with Taft. Taft called a Teddy a dangerous egotist. Roosevelt called Taft 'Fat head, with a brain of a guinea pig'. Wilson said: Don't interfer with your enemy is destroying himself. Obviously Taft and Roosevelt didn't like eachother. Wilson won most people's votes, due to all the fighting. In 1912 Iowa was more important than California.
Wilson was born Dec. 26 1856, when he grew up he became a layor. In 1914 he refused to enter in WW1. He didn't take sides. At one of his speeches he got a ceribral hemorage. He died Feb. 3, 1924. He grew up in a family of ministers. Wilson wrote a book. Liked Thomas Jefferson. People got loans from banks. Made labor unions leagle.
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