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The president who led the United States to "prosperity" and was assassinated because of war and disregard for civilians

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On September 6, 1901, the 25th President of the United States, William H. Bush, was elected President of the United States. McKinley was shot twice by an anarchist while attending a reception at an exposition, and after being knocked unconscious on September 14, he never woke up.

Americans have a high opinion of the former president, arguing that we have never had as much influence over Congress as McKinley. American historian Henry H. Adams commented that McKinley was a brilliant personnel manager who had found several people who were good at manipulating the situation to help him with his affairs.

And on the front of the later AMERICAN $500 coupon, it was William. Portrait of McKinley.

The president who led the United States to "prosperity" and was assassinated because of war and disregard for civilians

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Today we are going to talk about this "very controversial" president of the United States!

Prosperous President

Born in 1843, William. McKinley has always been a Whig, or Whig, for family reasons. This party supports the legislative power of Parliament above the executive power of the president's cabinet, and endorses the modernization and economic development program, which is actually in fact an endorsement of the British Whig Party against the dictatorship of the British royal monarch and opposes the presidential arbitrariness.

The president who led the United States to "prosperity" and was assassinated because of war and disregard for civilians

But after joining the army and working in law after the End of the Civil War, he met a lifelong friend named Hayes, who was nominated by the Republican Party as a candidate for governor in 1867, so he gave a speech as a friend in Stark County (where he worked as a lawyer), which was also his first time in politics and also joined the Republican Party.

Because of his attractive personality, quick intelligence and eloquence, Hayes successfully became governor, and he himself was elected the state's attorney general (the benefit of studying law) two years later.

The president who led the United States to "prosperity" and was assassinated because of war and disregard for civilians

Mark. Hanna

During this time, William. McKinley was also fortunate to get the Republican backstage boss and financial magnate Mark. Hanna's appreciation, who slowly began to prop up him as a spokesman for the Republican Party. At the same time, he also married the daughter of a local banker, James Saxony, which can be described as a "double harvest of love and career", and has since embarked on the peak of his life.

Since then, from state attorney general to congressman to governor, and finally to the president, Hanna has helped him arrange every opportunity behind the scenes, and former President Harrison Jr. (who was in office from 1889-1893) gave up his nomination, making him the 25th president of the United States almost without suspense.

On March 4, 1897, McKinley took over the presidency from outgoing President Cleveland and was formally sworn in.

In fact, McKinley inherited from him almost a mess, as we all know, the "Great Panic of 1893" in the United States greatly reduced the gold reserves of the Us treasury, industrial production was seriously excessive, the unemployment rate of workers remained high, and the lives of the people were miserable and socially unstable.

The president who led the United States to "prosperity" and was assassinated because of war and disregard for civilians

William. McKinley

Coupled with the fact that the Us monopoly capitalism at that time had already taken shape and was about to begin to enter a stage of massive external expansion, all these problems made McKinley feel very difficult.

But fortunately, there is a financial giant behind him, and Hanna's team has given him a lot of advice in this regard. As a result, after becoming president of the United States, McKinley began to start from the tariff aspect, revising the previous bill to increase tariffs on wool, sugar and various luxury goods, especially luxury goods from France.

Second, McKinley also established the gold standard, which successfully stabilized the value of the dollar. These measures led to the recovery of the U.S. economy and a thriving scene, so he was also known as the "prosperous president" by Americans.

Tough Guy President

In fact, McKinley's tough guy president was in quotation marks because of the Spanish-American War he had waged during his tenure and seized large colonies that the world regarded as a "tough guy" president. It was also because of his decisions that the United States quickly became a superpower, and at the same time, the United States gave the impression of a "self-righteous conscript" in the early 20th century, which is still the most criticized to this day.

The president who led the United States to "prosperity" and was assassinated because of war and disregard for civilians

At that time, when there was an urgent need to solve the domestic economic crisis, the United States was also looking for a wider overseas market, so McKinley abandoned the "isolationist" position followed before and began to expand aggressively. It was in this context that the Spanish-American War began.

The reason why the United States chose Spain was because it was an old empire and had many colonies on its hands, but Spain was already sunset and dusk at that time, so it was also the best "object of war" that McKinley thought was the best.

A good excuse was needed to start the war, and this excuse was "automatically delivered" in early 1898. This was also the second year after McKinley became president of the United States.

The cause was that the armed struggle against colonial rule in Cuba and the Philippines was brutally suppressed by the Spanish rulers, and the Americans used this suppression to "endanger the interests of American capitalists in the local area", and on February 15, 1898, the USS Maine, a warship sent by the United States to cuba to protect the overseas Chinese, exploded in the port of Havana, and the Americans demanded punishment for Spain, causing Spain to declare war on the Americans on April 24 of that year, and the next day, the United States declared war on Spain.

The president who led the United States to "prosperity" and was assassinated because of war and disregard for civilians

The war did not last long, the Spanish navy was destroyed, a large number of supplies could not be transported to the colonies in time, and the Spaniards soon realized that the battle was bound to be lost. So they commissioned the French ambassador to the United States, Jules Cambon, to negotiate peace with the United States on July 22, and it was not until September that the two sides began formal peace talks in Paris, and lasted until December 18, when the two sides signed the Paris Peace Treaty, and the United States took Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Guam, and of course, Hawaii.

And this "credit" is where Americans have been bragging about McKinley, as then-U.S. Secretary of State John Hay said in 1902: Under his leadership, Hawaii came to us, as well as Tutuila Island, Puerto Rico, and many islands in the East. Cuba was free. Our position in the Caribbean sea is assured that problems cannot arise in the future. Doctrines, known as Monroe's surname, have long been ridiculed and rejected by foreign political commentators, and are now being implemented in the world without provoking challenge or resistance. ...... He belongs among our greatest diplomats in dealing with foreign powers.

The president who led the United States to "prosperity" and was assassinated because of war and disregard for civilians

Of course, the bloodiness of this colonial war also made many people doubt his continued presidency of the United States, including the "open door" policy proposed by the United States to China at that time, in fact, it also wanted to rely on the increasingly powerful economic strength of the United States itself and seek to maximize China's interests under the principle of "equal opportunity".

Assassinated

Although McKinley has done well in terms of economic recovery, overseas expansion, and American influence, more of them represent the interests of the big capitalists and some chaebols behind him, and most of the workers and peasants have not been able to enjoy such war benefits, but more "broken families" have emerged.

In this environment, many middle- and low-income Americans began to be dissatisfied with him, and after he achieved re-election through the operation of capital, they began to plan to "assassinate" him.

The president who led the United States to "prosperity" and was assassinated because of war and disregard for civilians

On September 6, 1901, while attending the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, McKinley was shot by Jorgos, an unemployed worker from an immigrant family in Poland (who had also studied in Poland in middle school), and then sent to the hospital because of poor medical conditions and misdiagnosis, and eight days later, on September 14, 1901, the 58-year-old U.S. president died.

After his death, the presidency of the United States was handed over to Vice President Roosevelt Sr. who was personally appointed by him.

The president who led the United States to "prosperity" and was assassinated because of war and disregard for civilians

Of course, after McKinley's death, the anarchist who assassinated him also cheerfully confessed his crime and said: This is my duty, and I hate his (McKinley's) indifference and hostility towards working people.

It is precisely because of this unjustified assassination that many people think that this assassination is the most foolish and meaningless crime in history.

As for the evaluation of later generations, it is more positive and more positive, and his good name can be passed on, but unfortunately: McKinley's only two children also died of typhoid fever and frail and sick at birth. The third president in U.S. history to be assassinated has not been able to leave his own heirs, which has to be said to be a "pity."

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