Essays on William Mckinley

Spanish colonization in the Americas ended with the defeat of Spain in the Spanish-American War (1898). After sensationalist newspapers publicized the horrendous methods Spain used to stop the struggle for independence in Cuba, the American public felt sympathetic and public opinion inclined towards American intervention (“Grover Cleveland: American Interests In The Cuban Revolution”). The United States public sympathized with the Cuban rebels. The Treaty of Paris was signed Dec. 10, 1898, and Spain relinquished its hold on Cuba. US’s involvement in global affairs heightened during the cold war. The cold war was a period of rivalry between the ...

American historians have long agreed with Eric Rauchway’s central thesis that the assassination of William McKinley in 1901 was a fortuitous event that opened the door to the Progressive Era of the next two decades. Theodore Roosevelt and other Progressives used this assassination by a self-described anarchist immigrant named Leon Czolgosz as a warning that the American political and economic system had to be reformed and become more equitable for the working class or revolution would be inevitable. Roosevelt did “set himself the task of implementing radical changes for conservative purposes", by which he meant that the conditions of the small ...

I. What was going on in America during this time (1865-1877) known as "the reconstruction? (1-3 Page) (Talk about Lincolns 10% plan, Charles Sumner,Preston Brooks, Lincolns death, The Reconstruction act, Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, Freedmans Bureau, Birth of the KKK, etc.) There were two Reconstructions in American history, although the first one in 1865-77 ended with restoration of home rule and white supremacy in the South, rather than equal citizenship and voting rights promised in the 14th and 15th Amendments. In fact, it ended in extreme violence, with perhaps 50,000 blacks being murdered when the Ku ...