Election+of+1900

1900 Aaron Walt, Zach VanFaussien, Shashank Raj Date of election- November 6th

Who was in the White House at the time of election? William Mckinley was the president at the time.

What issues/events occured in the past four years previous to the election that influenced this current election? The Spanish American War in 1898- We won this war when Mckinley was in office, so he decided to use this to his advantage. His successes in the war were the main backing of his campaign in 1900, even though it was a brief war that he was not hugely involved in. Bryan criticized these military efforts though, which gained him the support of anti-war people but made him lose some of his supporters who were military advocates.

the question of the gold or silver standard. America was just beginning to implement a national paper money system into our economy. But, we had to choose between using gold or silver to back the paper money. We were trying to decide which was more stable. Gold was under question because the Klondike Gold Rush was happening at the time so gold prices were all over the place. Mckinely was with the gold standard, Bryan was with silver.

The monopolies in different industries across America- Industry was quickly growing across America and was becoming an important part of our economy. But, in industries such as banking, oil and gold, monopolies were starting. These were bad because they were a threat to our federal government. We had to figure out how to shut down these monopolies without ruining our economy.

Our involvement in Cuba and the Philippines- We acquired Cuba and the Philippines from the Spanish after defeating them in the war. These two countries needed help because their governments were flawed and their economies were dead. We needed to figure out the best way to organize these countries. Some people thought that ruling them would be hypocrital because we became a country by breaking off from the British, who were ruling us the same way. Bryan accused Mckinley of supporting this imperialism.

Candidates for each party: The republican candidate was William Mckinley running with his new candidate Teddy Roosevelt. His previous VP Garret Hobart died from heart failure in 1899. The Democrat candidate was William Jennings Bryan running with Adlai E. Stevenson.

Describe convention for each party: The republican convention was held June 19 to 21 in the Exposition Auditorium in Philadelphia. There were no issues deciding who they would elect, William Mckinley was unanimously reelected and nobody ran against him. Roosevelt was nominated for Vice President by 925 votes to 1 abstention and he was the one person who abstained. The Democratic Convention was held the week of July 4th at Convention Hall in Kansas City, Missouri. Bryan had little oppostion to the Democratic presidential candidate, but there were seven different people nominated to be VP. Adlai Stevenson obtained the Vice President position again.

This is the map of how the electoral college played out during the election of 1900. This map shows how this election played out and how William Mckinley and his Vp teddy roselvelt won by a Landslide margin against the Democrats of William Jennings and Adlai Stevenson. One thing to keep in mind with this map is how the states play out and the geography of the country as a whole. It is clear that the Gadsen purchase and the acquisition of the Arizona and New mexico territories are yet to be counted as part of the country or represented. Mckinley was the clear winner of the election of 1900. The electoral vote was 292-155 and the popular vote was 7,228,864-6,370,932.

Also, in 1901 Mckinley was assassinated on September 14,1901 and was replaced by Teddy Roosevelt.

The significance of this election can be elaborated in different ways. One example is taking the man Teddy Roosevelt and assessing his significance and importance in this election. With McKinley's victory in the election it set a future "star" in Teddy Roosevelt (Arguably the best president ever) to take office as McKinley was assassinated. Another significant effect of this election was Americas part in foreign policy as we were involved in many external conflicts such as cuba, Phillipino war, and the ramifications of the Spanish american war. Also the idea of the counting our monetary wealth through gold rather than silver.

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