William+MCKINLEY(1897-1901)

March 4, 1897, until his assassination in September 1901 ||  || -Ran against William Jennings Bryan in 1896 & again in 1900 -McKinley stated he was big on contributing to the economic expansion of the U.S. during his campaign while Bryan almost solely campaigned on the notion of having a Silver Standard. ||  || -John Sherman (Secretary of State) -Lyman J. Gage (Secretary of Treasury) -Russel A. Alger (Secretary of War) ||  || //- //Placed the United States on the Gold Standard ||  || -War with Spain in Cuba over Cuban independence -Annexation of Hawaii -Expanded the nation's trade with China ||  || -Sanctioned segregated education ||  || Hawaii,Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippine Islands ||  || McKinley was generally a pretty influential and strong president. He is considered one of the main men responsible for putting America on the route to becoming a world power. The main event that happened during his presidency was the Spanish American war which ended up being won, allowing the U.S. to expand it's territory out of North America. He was a decisive president and even though he didn't have a huge number of other significant achievements before his assassination in 1901, McKinley did his best to improve the U.S. as best he could and listened to it's citizens. ||  || -Died at Buffalo, New York -Killed by Leon Czolgosz -He was a lawyer before becoming a politician ||  ||
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McKinley's Inauguration Day: Inauguration Video (1897) ||  ||