Taft’s passage of the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act created a problem for Roosevelt progressives because:

Progressives wanted the Payne-Aldrich Tariff to reduce tariff rates substantially. Instead, it made only limited reductions and kept many rates high, so Taft’s signing of it disappointed them. Choice D, “it did little to lower taxes,” refers to those tariff rates; the issue was not that the act failed to help business.

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