Trivia: What was the nickname of the party that nominated Roosevelt in 1912?
Whig
Bull Moose
Bourbon Democrats
Copperheads
The correct answer is Bull Moose
So why is this answer correct? : In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt was three years removed from the presidency, and was running for the office again. He had defeated William Howard Taft in the Republican primaries but was denied the nomination, so he left the Republican Convention to form a new Progressive Party, nicknamed the Bull Moose Party. The party platform included proposals for social welfare that would later be found in the New Deal.