Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: A watan Satumba na 1901, William McKinley yana da iko sosai a matsayin shugaban kasa. An zabe shi a shekara ta 1896, a lokacin da ake fama da matsalar tattalin arziki mai tsanani wanda ya haifar da Panic na 1893, ya ci nasara da abokin hamayyarsa na Democrat, William Jennings Bryan. McKinley ya jagoranci al'umma duka don dawowa ga wadata da nasara a cikin Yakin Mutanen Espanya da Amurka a 1898, yana mallakar irin waɗannan yankuna na Mutanen Espanya kamar Puerto Rico da Philippines. An sake zabarsa cikin sauki a cikin sakewa da Bryan a shekarar 1900, a cewar marubucin tarihi Eric Rauchway, "ya yi kama da Gwamnatin McKinley za ta ci gaba da zaman lafiya ba tare da wata matsala ba har tsawon shekaru hudu, gwamnatin da aka sadaukar da ita ga wadata". Mataimakin shugaban McKinley na asali, Garret Hobart, ya mutu a 1899, kuma McKinley ya bar zabin abokin takara ga Babban Taron Republican na 1900. Kafin taron, shugaban siyasa na Republican na New York, Sanata Thomas C. Platt, ya ga wata dama ta siyasa don yin watsi da gwamnan jiharsa, tsohon Mataimakin Sakataren Sojojin Ruwa Theodore Roosevelt, ta hanyar tura shi a matsayin mataimakin shugaban kasa. Roosevelt ya karbi gabatarwa kuma an zabe shi a kan tikitin McKinley.  Tambaya: Yaushe ne yakin Mutanen Espanya da Amurka?
Shekara ta 1898