How did Republican divisions help Woodrow Wilson win the presidency? William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt split the Republ
ican vote, allowing the Democrat Wilson to win in the electoral college vote. Because Roosevelt ran on the Progressive Party ticket, Democrats voted for him. Because Taft and Roosevelt were divided over the trusts issue, Taft decided not to run.
William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt split the Republican vote, allowing the Democrat Wilson to win in the electoral college vote
Explanation:
The presidential election of 1912 was keenly contested by 3 major politicians namely : Woodrow Wilson of the democratic party, William Howard Taft of the republican party and Theodore Roosevelt of the progressives party.
Woodrow Wilson won most of the states in the general election which was about 40 states and loosing the remaining states to Howard Taft and Roosevelt. but the major challenge came in the college electoral votes which is where the congress would vote for the president. any candidate that gets more 50% of the vote wins the Election. The congress was made up of Republicans and Democrats and the votes of the republican congressmen/women were split between William and Roosevelt owing to the fact that they were both Republicans before the elections, this particular split aided Woodrow to win the election.
Spain felt that Portugal would dominate the world's trading routes and resources and it motivated them to compete with them and invest into their own campaigns, such as the one of Columbus.
Answer:Unanimity is impossible; the rule of a minority as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that rejecting the majority principle, anarchy, or despotism in some form, is all that is left.
