HISB31H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Archduke Franz Ferdinand Of Austria, Grover Cleveland, Victoria The Great
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Isolationism a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries. William howard taft, president (1909-1913: teddy roose(cid:448)elt"s (cid:862)handpicked(cid:863) president, 1910: midway poi(cid:374)t i(cid:374) taft"s ele(cid:272)tio(cid:374, 1912: republican party was going to reject the sitting president and find someone else to nominate: Came back and ran in the 1912 general election but the. Ran as a third party: the progressive party. 435 electoral college votes: theodore roosevelt. 88 electoral college votes: william howard taft. Woodrow wilson (1913-21: became president in 1912, was a democrat. First democratic president since before the civil war (grover cleveland: born in the southern united states (virginia, 1879: b. a. Princeton: 1881: llb virginia, 1886: phd johns hopkins, advocated for a british-like parliamentary system in the united states, 1902: president of princeton university, 1910: governor of new jersey, supporter of strong executive(s) and progressive(s)
