| william howard taft definitions |
| # | Definition | Sets |
| 1 | 27th president of the united states and later chief justice of the united states supreme court (1857-1930) | 12 sets |
| 2 | 27th president of the u.s.; he angered progressives by moving cautiously toward reforms and by supporting the payne-aldrich tariff; he lost roosevelt's support and was defeated for a second term. | 12 sets |
| 3 | 0 | 7 sets |
| 4 | (1908-1912), was endorsed by roosevelt because he pledged to carry on progressive program, then he didn't appoint any progressives to the cabinet, actively pursued anti-trust law suits, appoints richard ballinger as secretary of the interior, ballinger opposed conservation and favored business interests, taft fires gifford pinchot (head of u.s. forestry), ran for re-election in 1912 but lost to wilson | 4 sets |
| 5 | 27th president | 4 sets |
| 6 | successor of roosevelt; different views than teddy; part of political corruption; passed sixteenth amendment | 3 sets |
| 7 | backed by tr, president in 1908, broke trust, but raised tariffs, changed some conservation policies | 3 sets |
| 8 | 1909-1913 | 3 sets |
| 9 | president following roosevelt, did not carry on roosevelt’s progressive work | 2 sets |
| 10 | born 1857, appointed the 10th chief justice in 1921 by pres. harding, from connecticut, only man to serve as both president and chief justice, republican, u.s. solicitor general, interest more with law and justice than politics, but ambitious wife urged him to pursue elected office, after being president of the philippine commission, became sec. of war, pinned by theodore roosevelt to follow him into the presidency, known for effective administrative skills, instigator behind the construction of the supreme court building, retired in 1930 | 2 sets |
| 11 | president known for his "dollar diplomacy" | 2 sets |
| 12 | supreme court justice, trustbuster. | 2 sets |
| 13 | #27 | 2 sets |
| 14 | 27th president (1908-1912), he was the only man to serve as both president of the u.s. and chief justice of the supreme court. overweight, he was the only president to get stuck in the white house bathtub. roosevelt supported he in 1908, but later ran against him. | 2 sets |
| 15 | followed theodore roosevelt as president. | 2 sets |
| 16 | 27. 1909-1913 (1 term) | 2 sets |
| 17 | 27th president of the us, 1909- 1913; continued progressive reforms of president theodore roosevelt; promoted "dollar diplomacy" to expand foreign investments | 2 sets |
| 18 | 27th | 2 sets |
| 19 | successor to roosevelt but didn't share the same views and was scared of power. | 2 sets |
| 20 | a | 2 sets |
| 21 | roosevelt's successor as president (1909-1913) who tried but failed to mediate between reformers and conservatives in the republican party. | 2 sets |
| 22 | 27th president; supreme court chief justice | 2 sets |
| 23 | president from 1909 to 1913, successor to roosevelt | 2 sets |
| 24 | a mild progressive who urged people to invest abroad. known as the trust buster. created the dollar diplomacy policy. split the republican party. | 1 set |
| 25 | 1909-1913; payne-aldrich tariff; ballinger-pinochet quarrel; dollar diplomacy | 1 set |
| 26 | 1909-1913, 27th president | 1 set |
| 27 | won the 1908 presidential election, and the republican party under him divided up. | 1 set |
| 28 | succeeded in calming hostility toward the u.s. occupation of the phillipines by effectively bringing filipinos into an interim government | 1 set |
| 29 | exercised dollar diplomacy. he was unsuccessful in busting trusts like his predecessor. for the baseball fans, he was a second baseman who could hit with power, but a poor base runner. | 1 set |
| 30 | split with theodore roosevelt in 1912 | 1 set |
| 31 | roosevelt's successor didn't carry big stick. he adopted foreign policy that was mildly expansionist but depended more on investors' dollars than on the navy's battleships. | 1 set |
| 32 | vice president of roosevelt | 1 set |
| 33 | roosevelt's successor...he adopted a foreign policy that was mildly expansionist but depended more on investors' dollars than on the navy's battleships. he didn't carry a big stick!! | 1 set |
| 34 | the 27th president of the united states, the tenth chief justice of the united states | 1 set |
| 35 | roosevelt picked this 350 pound man to be his successor and unlike him, this republican president held views closer to that of the conservatives. | 1 set |
| 36 | 1909 to 1913, successor to roosevelt, successor of roosevelt; different views than teddy; part of political corruption; passed sixteenth amendment | 1 set |
| 37 | after serving as secretary of war under roosevelt, he succeeded him as president.. | 1 set |
| 38 | roosevelt's successor in 1908. he was a republican. | 1 set |
| 39 | the 27th president of the united states, the 10th chief justice of the united states, a leader of the progressive conservative wing of the republican party in the early 20th century, a chaired professor at yale law school, a pioneer in international arbitration, and a staunch advocate of world peace that verged on pacifism | 1 set |
| 40 | teddy roosevelt's secretary of war, who later succeeded roosevelt as president in 1908. | 1 set |