President Donald Trump often cites the 25th President, William McKinley, as an inspiration. The ‘McKinley Tariffs’ were some ...
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.
The turn of the century saw a rise in labor movements as industry grew largely unregulated.Bettmann/Getty Images President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs have become a defining feature of his second ...
William McKinley built his political reputation around protective tariffs before eventually questioning the very economic ideas that had helped make him famous. A Civil War veteran who rose through ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Historian Charles Calhoun talked the Tariff Act of 1890 also known as the McKinley Tariff. He spoke about Benjamin Harrison's role in passing the act ...