The Results of the 1912 Election

question 79

Multiple Choice

The results of the 1912 election

• A) represented a complete repudiation of the political and economic principles of progressivism.
• B) gave Woodrow Wilson a resounding electoral victory in the presidential contest, but a narrower popular vote victory for Wilson, especially in states outside the old Confederacy.
• C) left both houses of Congress in the hands of the Republicans.
• D) marked the end of the political career of William Howard Taft in Washington, D.C.
• E) included a negligible and disappointing popular vote total for the Socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs.

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