McKinley Administrations - Domestic Issues
Domestic Issues
Soon after McKinley took office the deep depression of the mid-1890s began to ease. The passing of the economic crisis also helped diminish the political crises of the previous years, as labor and agrarian protests began to subside. Still, the end of the depression by no means heralded a return to the nation's agricultural roots. By the late 1890s, the United States had become an urban, industrial country whose economy was dominated by large, wealthy corporations. Wealth and power had become concentrated in the hands of a very small number of people. At the same time many less fortunate Americans were living in dire poverty. McKinley, however, did not believe it was his role to address these matters. McKinley had supported business and industry throughout his career, and he resisted the recurring calls by Americans to regulate or reform the enormous power of the "trusts" that had formed monopolies over the nation's...
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