Progressive Era presidents taft and Wilson

1. How did William Howard Taft get selected to run for president?
He was handpicked because he was the secretary of war by Roosevelt, who didn't want to run for reelection.
2. How did Teddy Roosevelt come to oppose Taft for the presidency in 1912?
When Roosevelt had decided to run for a third term as president Taft was the incumbent. At the Republican convention Taft supporters replaced Roosevelt delegates with Taft delegates in numerous delegations. Whereas Republican progressives refused to vote and created the Bull Moose Party.
3. What events helped Woodrow Wilson win the election in 1912?
After the division of the Republican party between Taft and Roosevelt giving Democrats more percentage of the nation's votes.
4. What legislation did Wilson use to attack trusts and monopolies?
Wilson created the Claytpn Antitrust Act and the Federal Trade Commision that were both important antitrust measures. He also made a new tax system in which in effort to curb big business' power by reducing tariffs.
5. What was the Nineteenth Amendment?
The Nineteenth Amendment grants women the right to vote.
6. How did America's entry into World War I affect the reform movement?
With the country involved with the war they were to preoccupied to keep focusing on reform and put all of their effort and ideas into the war.