Examples of James K. Polk in the following topics:
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- Polk strongly supported expansion.
- Polk heavily pressured Britain to resolve the Oregon boundary dispute.
- Taylor refused to criticize Polk.
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- The Democrats later got the presidency back in 1844 with James K.
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- During his presidency, Polk lowered tariffs, set up a subtreasury system, and began and directed the Mexican-American War, in which the United States acquired much of the modern-day American Southwest.
- The fragmented opposition could not stop the election of Democrats Franklin Pierce in 1852 and James Buchanan in 1856.
- Led by Stephen Douglas, James K.
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- In this climate of opinion, voters in 1844 elected into the presidency James K.
- Polk, a slaveholder from Tennessee, because he vowed to annex Texas as a new slave state, and to take Oregon.
- "Manifest destiny" was a term Democrats primarily used to support the Polk Administration's expansion plans.
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- Polk ordered General Zachary Taylor to garrison the southern border of Texas, as defined by the former Republic.
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- The term "dark horse candidate" was coined at the 1844 Democratic National Convention when little-known Tennessee politician James K.
- Polk emerged as the candidate after the leading candidates failed to secure the necessary two-thirds majority vote.
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- Calhoun, James K.
- Polk, Lewis Cass, and Stephen Douglas are among the best known Democratic figures of this period.
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- First popularized during the presidency of James K.
- Polk, the concept of an "American Empire" was made a reality throughout the latter half of the 1800s.
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- It was not until the ninth ballot that the Democrats discovered an obscure pro-annexation candidate named James K.
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- Satisfied by these developments, Tyler dropped out of the presidential race in August and endorsed Polk for the presidency.
- Polk's narrow victory over Clay in the November election was seen by the Tyler administration as a mandate for completing the resolution.
- President Polk ordered General Zachary Taylor to garrison the southern border of Texas, as defined by the former Republic.
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- In 1840, territorial expansion became a priority for President James Polk, as Texas was annexed shortly before his inauguration.Believing in the "Manifest Destiny" of the United States to expand to the Pacific, Polk supported "Texans in their efforts to seize all land to the Rio Grande and claim the river as their southern and western border, in spite of the fact that Mexico claimed the Nueces River as the Texan border.With the annexation of Texas and the growing conflict between Mexicans and Texans, the Mexican government broke diplomatic relations with the United States.
- Coterminously with the outbreak of conflict with Mexico, Polk and the Democrats began to threaten war with Great Britain over a dispute on the U.S.
- -British boundary in Oregon.However, rather than go to war with both Mexico and Britain, Polk opted for a diplomatic compromise to divide the Oregon territory at the 49th parallel.The compromise was made official by the Oregon Treaty in 1846.This allowed Polk to concentrate on the conflict with Mexico and gave the U.S. present-day Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming.However, the Oregon Treaty also angered war-hungry northern Democrats who criticized Polk for prioritizing southern expansion over northern expansion.
- With the conflict over the Texan border escalating, Polk sent Zachary Taylor and American troops into Texas to defend the Rio Grande boundary, provoking the outbreak of war.The American public largely supported the war and was eager for news of conquest and war stories disseminated from newspapers and magazines.The war also held romantic appeal for Americans who believed that it was the destiny of the United States to possess the North American continent and to expand "progressive democracy" to new territories acquired from backward nations.
- However, the Mexican War was the source of much political conflict in the 1840s and compounded the sectional divides that already split national political coalitions.Most Whigs in the North and South opposed the war, while most Democrats supported it.In particular, Southern Democrats who were animated by the belief in Manifest Destiny enthusiastically supported the war in hope of adding slave-owning territory to the South (and thereby maintaining a political-balance of power with the faster-growing North).For most Whigs, the Mexican War represented little more than a weak justification by southern politicians for the aggressive expansion of slavery.However, Polk and southern Democrats continued to justify the war using arguments of Manifest Destiny and claiming that territory ceded from Mexico would repay the United States for several hefty loans given to the Mexican government during its war of independence.
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- President James Polk endorsed the Rio Grande boundary, which incited a dispute with Mexico.
- After a series of failed negotiations with Mexico City, Polk ordered General Zachary Taylor and his forces south to the Rio Grande to enter the territory that Mexicans disputed.
- In response, Polk asked for a declaration of war.
- Rather than reinforce Taylor's army for a continued advance, Polk sent a second army under General Winfield Scott to begin an invasion of the Mexican heartland.
- While Polk and other expansionists called for “all Mexico,” the Mexican government and the United States negotiated for peace in 1848, resulting in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.