People In Tampa ask President McKinley to send soldiers for protection in the weeks after April 1898 that caused a great deal of overcrowding which was not at all needed.
Explanation: In the year 1898, Republican William McKinley brought the nation into war for the independence of Cuba with Spain. His courageous foreign policy allowed United States to play active role in global affairs.
He was reelected with huge margin of victory reflected the American public’s satisfaction resulted the Spanish-American War and the economic prosperity of the country.
Tampa’s streets was overcrowded and hundred of soldiers were affected by heat exhaustion and had to compute with mosquitoes. The shortage of food, milk, and ice also affected the soldiers.