President McKinley
William McKinley was born on January 29, 1843 in Niles, Ohio. Niles was a small town with no railroad and few wagon roads. He was the seventh child. When he was 9 years old they moved to Poland, Ohio. He went to the schoolhouse and then entered the local academy until he was 17.
When he was 18, he taught school and earned $25 a month. When vacation came he worked at the Poland post office. When the Civil War came, he enlisted. Shortly after he enlisted he was promoted to sergeant.
When the war came to an end, he was a major at the age of 22.
He attended the Albany Law School and he joined a law firm in 1867.
He was elected county prosecuting attorney. On January 25,1871 he married
Ida Saxton. He campaigned for General Rutherford B. Hayes who was his commanding officer during the Civil War.
In 1876 he was elected to Congress and served 7 terms. He sponsored the tin industry and in 1896 he ran for president and won. He found that the gold in the Treasury was low and he worked on obtaining more gold for the
Treasury.
He passed the Tariff Bill and imports and exports increased. Hawaii asked for annexation to the United States. He sent the Treaty of Annexation to the senate but they rejected it.
“Reporting the stalemate between Spanish forces and revolutionaries in
Cuba, newspapers screamed that a quarter of the population was dead and the rest suffering acutely. Public indignation brought pressure upon the President for war. Unable to restrain Congress or the American people, McKinley delivered his message of neutral intervention in April 1898. Congress thereupon voted three resolutions tantamount to a declaration of war for the liberation and independence of Cuba.”
When the Battleship Maine was sunk, the United States declared war.
During the 100 days of this war, the United States destroyed the Spanish fleet outside Santiago harbor in Cuba. Also, they seized Manila in the Philippines and occupied Puerto Rico.
After the victory in Manila Bay, Congress began to see the projected annexation of Hawaii differently. The Senate and the House of
Representatives took a vote on making Hawaii a territory of the United
States. It was passed in June by the House of Representatives and then in July by the Senate. In 1898, Hawaii became a territory of the United States.
They abandoned the Nicaragua project in 1898 and started work on the
A series of measures took the nation off the gold standard, thereby offering some assistance to debtors and exporters. He also got Congress to appropriate $500 million in federal relief grants to states and local...
history. He became President of the United States at the crucial crossroads of the nineteenth and
resulted in the doubling of the debt of the United States. He used the money for
He was already in his later years by the time the Gilded Age rolled around and didn't even get to see the uprising of some of the greatest leaders of the time. The railroad companies took advantage of their necessity by constantly overcharging customers, especially farmers. This led to one of the first labor unions in the United States, an organization known as the Grange.... ... middle of paper ...
He then became Governor in 1882 and was a huge success because of his reputation
sided with the South and West since he believed that not just the the B.U.S. but all banks
The bill was debated and negotiated for nearly six years in Congress, and finally passed amid unusual circumstances. Several times in the legislative process the bill had appeared to have failed, but each time was saved when a couple of Congressmen and Senators switched positions on the bill. The bill was introduced in the House of Representatives early on June 25, 2003 as H.R. 1, sponsored by Speak Dennis Hastert. All that day and the next the bill was debated, and it was apparent that the bill would be very divisive. In June 27, a floor vote was taken. After the initial electronic vote, the count stood at 214 yeses an...
family in Lexington for two years before returning to Kilmichael. He took on farm work in Indianola in
Carolina. The. His father died before the war, and his mother and siblings all died during the war from disease or other causes, leaving him an orphan at the age of 14. When he was a kid he only received sporadic education, and education back then was simply not enough. But he did well and eventually went on to study law.
On January 8th, 1835, a senator stood up to declare that the national debt had been paid(for now)(“npr.org”). This was a enormous moment in his presidency and U.S. history. This was an important thing to Andrew Jackson who hated debt, and though it was immoral(“npr.org”). At the start of his presidency, he disbanded the national banks, he hated the banks more than the debt. To begin the process of removing debt, Andrew Jackson blocked every bill to spend money(“npr.org”). After that, he began selling all of the land in the west because, there was a large demand as the country was expanding(“waltercoffey.com”). After Andrew Jackson was able to remove the debt, he was said, “Let us commemorate the payment of the public debt as an event that gives us increased power as a nation and reflects luster on our Federal Union.(Encyclopedia of Presidents)” However, this perpetual bliss could not last forever. Since the banks had been removed, Jackson had nowhere to put the money, so he gave it to the states(“npr.org”).The states then started printing massive ammounts of money, which caused the economy to enflate drastically(“npr.org”). In an effort to slow this down, Jackson required that all government land sales be done with gold or silver(“npr.org”). However, this caused the economy to crash. After that, we went into a depression, which we were only able to get out
which he served as a member of the French army. After the war was finished, he
The election of 1892 was won by Cleveland (D). He had brought new ideas and was an inspiration to all including the opposite parties. Cleveland had the majority of the votes especially the votes that came from the East coast which has major plantations (Document D). Cleveland promised big hope for people. He was said to have solid sense and able to give social stability especially by being accompanied with McKinley (Document I). In the end Cleveland just gave land to farmers because of the complaints of the railroads.
father died in 1833, when Garfield was only two years old and so his mother
...ed with a vote of 63-34. It was then sent to the House on October 25, 1999. On April 5, 2000, H.R. 3660 was passed with a vote of 287-141, then there was a motion to reconsider. It was then receive by the Senate on April 6, 2000.