SUGGESTIONS.

The Spanish-American War occupied much of McKinley's attention. Read his policy. Pages 6280, 6295, 6297, 6298, 6302, 6305, 6307, 6428. (See also Cuba and citations, Encyclopedic Index, for causes leading to the war. See also Spanish-American War and citations, Encyclopedic Index.)

The tariff question was also important; McKinley himself being a tariff expert, and the author of the McKinley Bill, which had been superseded by the Wilson Bill during Cleveland's second administration. The Dingley Tariff Bill became a law in 1897. Pages 6238, 6246.

Read McKinley's Foreign Policy. Pages 6241, 6248, 6280, 6295, 6307.

NOTE.

For further suggestions on McKinley's administration see McKinley, William, Encyclopedic Index.

By reading the Foreign Policy of each President, and by scanning the messages as to the state of the nation, a thorough knowledge of the history of the United States will be acquired from the most authentic sources; because, as has been said, "Each President reviews the past, depicts the present and forecasts the future of the nation."

Theodore Roosevelt

September 14, 1901, to March 4, 1909

Messages, Proclamations, and Executive Orders.

to March 4, 1909.

SEE ENCYCLOPEDIC INDEX.

The Encyclopedic Index is not only an index to the other volumes, not only a key that unlocks the treasures of the entire publication, but it is in itself an alphabetically arranged brief history or story of the great controlling events constituting the History of the United States.

Under its proper alphabetical classification the story is told of every great subject referred to by any of the Presidents in their official Messages, and at the end of each story the official utterances of the Presidents themselves are cited upon the subject, so that you may readily turn to the page in the body of the work itself for this original information.

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