Write T in the blank if the statement is true. If the statement is false, write F in the blank and then write the corrected statement on the line below. 1. President Taft's secretary of the interior, Richard A. Ballinger, disapproved of conservationist controls of western lands. 2. The presidential election of 1908 saw the emergence of new third party, the Progressive Party, also known as the Bull Moose Party. 3. Woodrow Wilson, the 1912 Democratic presidential candidate, was a reform senator from New York. 4. Progressives disapproved of the Payne-Aldrich Tariff. 5. The Bull Moose Party finished a distant third to the Democrats and Republicans in the election of 1912.

Explanation:

1. It is True that President Taft's secretary of the interior, Richard A. Ballinger, disapproved of conservationist controls of western lands.

2. It is False to say that the presidential election of 1908 saw the emergence of a new third party, the Progressive Party, also known as the Bull Moose Party because it actually did happen in the 1912 elections.

3. It is also False to say that Woodrow Wilson, the 1912 Democratic presidential candidate, was a reform senator from New York because he was actually from New Jersey.

4. Indeed, the Progressives disapproved of the Payne-Aldrich Tariff, thus making the statement True.

5. It is False to say that The Bull Moose Party finished a distant third to the Democrats and Republicans in the election of 1912 because the records show that they actually finished 2nd.