What was a direct result of the policy disagreements between theodore roosevelt and william howard taft?

The direct result was the creation of the Progressive or Bull Moose party, because as Roosevelt mentored Taft to become his successor as president of the USA, and as Taft based his government on a different branch of Republicanism that Roosevelt disliked, the latter decided to create his own party, that did not received enough support and this resulted in the election of the Democrat Woodrow Wilson.

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