Elected after the closing of the American frontier to the west, McKinley found new ways to expand in the Pacific and Caribbean following the Spanish American War.

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 ...

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 ...

Congress approved President McKinley's request for a declaration of war on April 25, 1898; yet the Spanish-American War was the culmination of decades of pressure toward U.S. expansionism.

FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Now to the “Idol of Ohio” - William McKinley. Before becoming the 25th president - McKinley taught at a school in Ohio when the Civil War began. In 1861, an 18 ...