Answer is: because conservative Republicans re-elected Taft at the party's 1912 national convention.
1912 National Convention<span> of the </span>Republican Party<span> of the </span>United States was held at Chicago. <span>That was beginning of a split in the party because a power struggle between Taft and former president </span>Theodore Roosevelt. <span> Roosevelt as defeted established new </span><span>Progressive Party.</span>
The Spirit<span> of the </span>Laws<span> (French: De l'esprit des lois, originally spelled De l'esprit des loix; also sometimes translated </span>The Spirit of Laws<span>) is a treatise on political theory, as well as a pioneering work in comparative </span>law<span>, published in 1748 by Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu.</span>
Answer:
water/ocean the closer you were it was easier for merchants and trades to go from (Europe I'm guessing) to the New World (also guessing) also good farm land to plant crops for food (the south was popular because it didn't get too cold in the winter and the soil was good/fertile and not rocky)
Because the opposite team surrender