This election brought an end to the Third-Party System, which in a post-Civil War American focused mainly on American nationalism, modernization, and race. Now the Fourth Party System was ushered in, this system focused mainly on regulations of large companies, railroads, the money supply of the U.S., tariffs, labor unions, child labor, corruption, and several others. This election changed the main focus of the U.S., which was felt for the five decades. Another thing this election affected was campaigning, as never before had two campaigns been run like this. McKinley was the first candidate to raise such large funds for their campaign. Bryan, on the other hand, was one of the first candidates to stray from tradition and travel across the country
