Question

Which of the following is true about the election of 1912?

Answer 1

Answer:

B

Explanation:

The correct answer is B.

A- A is incoreect as Theodore Roosevelt recieved more votes than Taft did. Roosevelt carried 89 electoral votes and recieved 4.1 million votes. Taft only got 8 Electoral votes and 3.4 million votes.

B- B is correct - this was the primary issue that the candidates ran on. Roosevelts party was called the Progressive Party and put forward progressive policies for their candidate. He had been part of the republican campaign but left to form his own party after his progressives were squeezed out of the decision making process.

C-  C is incorrect as Woodrow Wilson didn't run for the Republican Party- He was the Democrats candidate for the presidency.

D-  D is incorrect as Roosevelt didnt run for the democratic nomination. The former president was a republican. However the republicans didnt nominate him because he was too progressive, so instead he founded his own party and split the republican vote.