Question

One reason Woodrow Wilson was able to win the presidency in 1912 was that …………….
A. Americans rallied around him during World War I
B. a majority of African Americans voted for the Democratic Party
C. Wilson's humble origins endeared him to working-class Americans
D. there was a major split in the Republican Party
E. his opponent died two weeks before the election

Answer 1

Hint: Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and scholar who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. As a member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of Princeton University and the 34th governor of New Jersey, and then won the honor of Princeton University. The 1912 presidential election.

Complete Answer:
Wilson faced two main opponents in the 1912 general election: former Republican President William Howard Taft and former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt, who ran a third-party campaign as a candidate for Bull Moose. The fourth candidate is Eugene W. Debs from the Socialist Party. Roosevelt broke up from his previous party at the 1912 Republican National Convention after Taft won a name change, and a split in the Republican Party gave Democrats hope they could win the presidency for the first time since the 1892 presidential election. Wilson participated in an intense and cross-country campaign to give many speeches. In the end, he won 42 percent of the vote and 435 out of 531 votes. Roosevelt won the majority of the remaining electoral votes and 27.4 percent of the popular vote, one of the strongest third-party accomplishments in US history. Taft won 23.2 percent of the vote but only 8 electoral votes, while Debs won 6 percent of the vote. In concurrent congressional elections, Democrats retained control of the house and won a majority of the Senate.
So, the correct answer is Option D.

Note: The Progressive Party (often referred to as the Bull Moose Party) is the third party in the United States, founded in 1912 by former President Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the Republican Presidential nomination to his former protege and Conservative rival, the incumbent president William Howard Taft.