Woodrow Wilson, TR, and Taft, who is most progressive?
woodrow wilson. If FDR was in the mix it would be FDR.
How did TR, Taft, and Wilson compare in their approaches to reform?
TR mainly focused on conservation of natural resources, consumer protection, and some corporate control (trust busting). Taft did MUCH MORE trust busting than did Taft, Wilson pushed for economic reform (Underwood Tariff Act and the creation of the Federal Reserve system) lower tariffs, and a federal income tax. None did very much in regards to civil rights--Wilson being the worst.
Compare the presidencies of Teddy Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson.?
Roosevelt broke up the trusts. Added new businesses & new jobs to the market. Taft added to that with more anti rust laws. Wilson (and I will keep personal feelings out of it) stsrted the income tax. He told the world we will make it safe for DEmocracy. He also helped our friends during WW1.
The Election of 1912 was a 'wild' one, with four candidates: the Republican (GOP) incumbent, William H. Taft... a third-party "protest" effort by ex-Pres Theodore Roosevelt, of the Progressive 'Bull-Moose' Party... the Democratic candidate, NJ Gov. Woodrow Wilson... and the socialist candidate, Eugene Debs. In the end, with 48 states in the country, TR pulled in 27% of the popular vote and carried six states (Calif., Wash. State, SD, Minn., Mich. & Penna.). Pres. Taft pulled over 23% of the popular vote and carried two states (Utah and Vt.). Debs pulled in 6% of the vote, carrying no states. Gov. Wilson won the election with about 42% of the popular vote and carried the remaining 40 states.
Roosevelt, taft, & wilson?
Firstly,they were political party hacks.Secondly,their allegiance was not to the people of America,but to a Financial Oligarchy.
Who was the most "progressive" president: T. Roosevelt, Taft, or Wilson?
Teddy Roosevelt with out a doubt. He took what he was given, and based on what the people told him, he changed. Prime examples- Upton Sinclair's The Jungle... without his book TR would not have gotten around to the Meat Inspection Act or the Pure Food and Drug Act. He also took measures of conventionalism, based on what friends told him. He busted the bad trusts, and strengthened the good ones. He went out and aided the world, contrary to the common practice of American Isolationism. He sort of set the precedent which Taft was supposed to rise to, and ended up failing miserably
Who do you think was a more progressive president: Theodore Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson? Why?
Theorists would say Wilson's actions with the League of Nations, etc. would be more progressive. Those who have actually lead others would tell you Teddy's results in outlining the U.S.' role in the world was more effective. Observers would see TR's accomplishments were lasting, while Wilson's dissipated over time. In fact, even with the U.N. later coming to be on the opposite coast, it could still be argued effectively that the U.N. is an ephemeral body that inspires more controversy - providing a forum for extremists - than it resolves.
I've answered the "unfavorably" question, let me take a crack at this one:First of all, there are the worst presidents in American history. You cannot reasonably say that any American president is worse than James Buchanan in any way. Buchanan was simply absolutely ineffectual in every way. Franklin Pierce, Warren Harding and Andrew Johnson were similarly ineffectual, but existed at less-critical flashpoints in American history. Then there were presidents whose administrations were marked not by ineffective decisions but corrupt ones: Taylor, W. Bush, Tyler, Hoover, and of course the nadirs of American political corruption, Ulysses S. Grant and Richard M. Nixon.Anyone saying that any American president is objectively worse than those 10 Chief Executives is simply wrong unless they are ordering those 10.The second-lowest quartile of American Presidents are the placeholders. They're your Harrison (William Henry OR Benjamin), Hoover, Garfield, Coolidge, or Taft. Lukewarm presidents whose butt warmed the Oval Office chair but didn't make any particular mark either on the nation or the Presidency (W.H. Harrison excepted, but he's only remarkable in that he died 30 days after taking office). Obama is above this quartile because love him or hate him, he's influential and active as President. He had a vision of his policy and he pressed it in the face of unprecedented heel-dragging.History hasn't yet judged Obama but I suspect we'll find him in the top quartile once the furor of the present dies down. Even of highly ranked Presidents he has attributes that are clearly remarkable (he is, for example, the strongest Presidential orator ever, and considering we've had some excellent orators as President, that's saying something). He has conserved more American wilderness than every other President put together and he's shown willingness, no matter how flawed, to take on the true crises of our time.