Post by kodak on Jan 29, 2016 5:10:32 GMT
Roosevelt's unexpected third term has broken the two-party system and led to a ferment in Washington and the country.
In DC, the growing progressive party, the smallest of the three, has mostly alligned with the Republicans to pass many major reforms, including the seventeenth amendment creating direct elections for senators, and the eighteenth amendment allowing women's suffrage (yet to be ratified by 3/4 of the states), along with many worker's benefits. The Sixteenth amendment, passed under President Taft, was also ratified under Roosevelt, and the IRS was started for collection of income taxes. Unfortunately, many of the key areas of the progressive platform have gone untouched, angering many within the party.
Roosevelt has also overseen a great strengthening of the National Park Service and Department of the Interior, still showing his vigor for protecting and enjoying the great American outdoors.
Roosevelt's most divisive views have come on foreign policy. Several Latin American nations were 'intervened in' to 'restore order', most notably Mexico during their revolution. Troops
were initially stationed in Veracruz and northern Chihuahua and Sonora, but most have been withdrawn after public outcry. Additionally, Roosevelt has supported American entry on the entente side of the great war raging in Europe, a move opposed by most of the American public and Congress, and has led him to be labelled a warmongerer by the democrats and republicans. German-American relations have been seriously damaged, to the point where unrestricted submarine warfare is being conducted by the Germans, a move that has created some allied sympathies and no small amount of anger.
The Democrats have nominated Champ Clark, the runner-up for nomination in 1912, while the Republicans, hoping to reunify the party, have nominated Supreme Court justice and moderate Charles E. Hughes. With Debs no longer seeking nomination and labor flocking to the progressives, the socialists are down on support and have nominated Allan Benson.
In DC, the growing progressive party, the smallest of the three, has mostly alligned with the Republicans to pass many major reforms, including the seventeenth amendment creating direct elections for senators, and the eighteenth amendment allowing women's suffrage (yet to be ratified by 3/4 of the states), along with many worker's benefits. The Sixteenth amendment, passed under President Taft, was also ratified under Roosevelt, and the IRS was started for collection of income taxes. Unfortunately, many of the key areas of the progressive platform have gone untouched, angering many within the party.
Roosevelt has also overseen a great strengthening of the National Park Service and Department of the Interior, still showing his vigor for protecting and enjoying the great American outdoors.
Roosevelt's most divisive views have come on foreign policy. Several Latin American nations were 'intervened in' to 'restore order', most notably Mexico during their revolution. Troops
were initially stationed in Veracruz and northern Chihuahua and Sonora, but most have been withdrawn after public outcry. Additionally, Roosevelt has supported American entry on the entente side of the great war raging in Europe, a move opposed by most of the American public and Congress, and has led him to be labelled a warmongerer by the democrats and republicans. German-American relations have been seriously damaged, to the point where unrestricted submarine warfare is being conducted by the Germans, a move that has created some allied sympathies and no small amount of anger.
The Democrats have nominated Champ Clark, the runner-up for nomination in 1912, while the Republicans, hoping to reunify the party, have nominated Supreme Court justice and moderate Charles E. Hughes. With Debs no longer seeking nomination and labor flocking to the progressives, the socialists are down on support and have nominated Allan Benson.
