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MCKINLEY, William. Partly printed document signed ("William McKinley"), as President, Washington, 6 February 1899. 1 page, 8vo, on Executive Mansion stationery.
MCKINLEY ORDERS THE OFFICIAL SEAL AFFIXED TO THE TREATY OF PARIS ENDING THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. "I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of State to cause the Seal of the United States to be affixed to the exchange copy of the Treaty of Peace between the United States and Spain, concluded at Paris, December 10, 1898, dated this day, and signed by me, and for so doing this shall be his warrant." America and Spain concluded the Treaty of Paris on 10 December 1898. Under its terms, Spain ceded control of Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico to the U. S. along with the Philippine Islands in return for a payment of $20 million. Americans had urged McKinley to "Remember the Maine!" and go to war in Cuba as a result of Spain's brutal actions as a colonial power. Traditional hostility towards European colonial powers still ran deep among American voters. Yet the new territory acquired by this treaty made the U. S. a major imperial power in its own right. McKinley thought American influence would civilize the Filipinos, but U. S. troops soon found themselves at war against a fierce nationalist resistance movement in the Philippines led by Emilio Aguinaldo. Casualties were high in fighting that lasted from 1899 until 1902 when the Army finally killed Aguinaldo and broke the back of the insurgency.
MCKINLEY ORDERS THE OFFICIAL SEAL AFFIXED TO THE TREATY OF PARIS ENDING THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR. "I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of State to cause the Seal of the United States to be affixed to the exchange copy of the Treaty of Peace between the United States and Spain, concluded at Paris, December 10, 1898, dated this day, and signed by me, and for so doing this shall be his warrant." America and Spain concluded the Treaty of Paris on 10 December 1898. Under its terms, Spain ceded control of Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico to the U. S. along with the Philippine Islands in return for a payment of $20 million. Americans had urged McKinley to "Remember the Maine!" and go to war in Cuba as a result of Spain's brutal actions as a colonial power. Traditional hostility towards European colonial powers still ran deep among American voters. Yet the new territory acquired by this treaty made the U. S. a major imperial power in its own right. McKinley thought American influence would civilize the Filipinos, but U. S. troops soon found themselves at war against a fierce nationalist resistance movement in the Philippines led by Emilio Aguinaldo. Casualties were high in fighting that lasted from 1899 until 1902 when the Army finally killed Aguinaldo and broke the back of the insurgency.