SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. Clevelanders were active, enthusiastic supporters of U.S. foreign policy as practiced by Ohioans Pres. Wm. McKinley, Secretary of State Wm. R. Day, and his successor, JOHN HAY.

Mckinley found new ways to expand in the Pacific and Caribbean following the Spanish American War. His Open Door policy to China established the United States as an equal to the great European powers.

Troops on the march, Spanish American War. Artist Glackens, William J., 1870-1938. Library of Congress Congress approved President McKinley's request for a declaration of war on April 25 ...

McKinley’s presidency marked a turning point for U.S. foreign policy. He played a large role in winning the Spanish-American War, which resulted in Spain ceding Puerto Rico, Guam and the ...

McKinley’s tariff legislation also unintentionally helped spark the 1898 Spanish-American War, according to Irwin. Part of ...

He then signed an executive order re-renaming the highest peak in North America "Mount McKinley ... led our Nation to victory in the Spanish-American War. Under his leadership, the United ...

The American Ambassador at Madrid, a good man, evidently saw that there was no cause for war. MCKINLEY saw this, too. But the Republican Party, as J. M. FORBES said, wanted the war to keep it in ...

(Sound familiar?) As president from 1897 to 1901, McKinley enacted record-high tariffs and used the brief Spanish-American War of 1898 to seize a colonial empire of islands stretching halfway ...

The explosion of the battleship Maine in the Havana Harbor in 1898 became a major factor in McKinley’s decision to fight the Spanish-American War. America’s victory transferred the Philippines ...