Question

Wilson defeated Charles Evans Hughes in the Election of 1916 for all of the following reasons excepta. Midwesterners and westerners, attracted by Wilson's progressive reforms and antiwar policies, flocked to the polls for the president.b. the pro-labor Wilson received strong support from the working class.c. Wilson had worked through his first term to identify himself as the candidate of progressivism.d. Wilson received strong support from renegade Bull Moose voters, whom Republicans failed to lure back into their camp.e. Wilson's sweep of the Eastern part of the country overcame his narrow loss in California.

Answer 1

Wilson defeated Charles Evans Hughes in the Election of 1916 for all of the following reasons except the last option provided: Wilson's sweep of the Eastern part of the country overcame his narrow loss in California.

He won re-election in 1916 by appealing particularly to progressives in the Midwest and the West. Besides, he claimed victory because of the third-party Progressive challenge that split the Republicans.

His full name is Thomas Woodrow Wilson and he ruled the United States as the 28th president from 1913 to 1921.