1. Taft was TR's secretary of War, and was hand-picked by TR to run as his sucessor in 1908.
2. TR came back from a hunting trip in 1910 and proposed "new nationalism" he ran for office in 1912.
3. The republicans were split between Taft and TR, which opened up a power void which the democrat Woodrow Wilson filled.
4. Wilson used the Clayton Anti-trust Act 1914 and the Federal Trade Commission 1914 to bust trusts.
5. In 1919 congress passsed the 19th amendment (granting women the right to vote), and it was ratified in 1920.
6. WWI essentially ended the reform era because legislators were distracted, and reform efforts stalled.
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