James Knox Polk, a candidate of the Democratic Party in 1844, became the US president between 1845 and1849; however, he remains largely forgotten today, in the popular US imagination, because memories concerning his presidency had been overcome by memories of the most famous presidents like Abraham Lincoln. Remembrance of Polk as the 11th U.S president can be more despised than loved by many, because, as a leader, he resorted to expand the US territory by all means. His presidency deserves scrutiny, since he oversaw an era of intense internal agreement in the nation that led to the outbreak of the Civil War in the 19th century. He served a one-term presidency, and his predecessor was John Tyler.…
was the Ghent Treaty a Failure or a Success in the views of Americans? How Did it affect the country ?…
General John Sullivan was in control of many things. The weather was not one of them. Neither was the Comte d’Estaing. He was the French Admiral in charge of the fleet sent to aid General Sullivan in re-taking Newport, Rhode Island from the British. No one questioned General Sullivan’s bravery. A goodly number questioned his diplomacy.…
t the time when the United States was a new nation, there were a number of issues that needed to be addressed in order for the Union of states to become a working country. In a short period, the North had become more progressive and industrialized. There were larger urban populations and the issues that faced northern areas were different from those that faced the South. When new territories were added to the nation, it was politically relevant that they were added in such a way that the balance of power was maintained. The Compromise of 1850 addressed this balance. The Compromise was a group of five laws that addressed slavery and overturned the Missouri Compromise. The climate of the time quickly becomes one of the northern states against…
James Knox Polk was born on November 2, 1795 in a log cabin in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, and went to become the 11th and youngest President of the United States.…
James K. Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina on November 2, 1795. He was the eldest out of ten children , later on in 1818 Polk graduated from the University Of Carolina , where he studied law . James married once to Sarah Childress in the year of 1824. Before presidency james served in the Tennessee House of Representatives , and later on became the governor of Tennessee.…
Lastly, John Tyler’s foreign policies ran very fluently, picking up on how vital the Asian Pacific region was to trade, he sent a strategic group of individuals over on a journey. This resulted in strong relations with the country. Another foreign affair involved putting a stop to a bloody war with the Seminoles, This ended lots of violence.…
What if the American Civil War never happened? It could have if the Crittenden Compromise would have passed. The Crittenden Compromise was one of the last attempts to stop a war from happening in America. The Crittenden Compromise is one cause of the Civil War. It would have allowed the southern states to have slaves, and the northern to not. It also would have allowed the Confederates to maintain their beliefs in slavery being useful and right.…
Around the 1840s, the US aspired to annex Texas and incorporate it as a state within the Union. However, gaining Texas had its consequences as it lead a war with Mexico. William Ellery Channing, an abolitionist and pacifist, saw that the policy regarding obtaining Texas would led the “nation into war” as it severed as “encroachment,” and a way “to propagate the curse of slavery.” (Doc 2) The annexation of Texas was seen invading Texas’ link to Mexico as in document one, the American Review stated the annexation “shall dissolve the slight bounds that now link the province to Mexico” (Doc 1) This served as a situation for Mexico, who had refused to recognize Texas’ independence and its takeover by the United States, although President James Polk, a strong supporter of the annexation of Texas as seen in his Inaugural Address- where he stated “none can fail to see the danger to our safety and future peace if Texas remains an independent states,” attempted to aid Mexico in coming to an understanding. Therefore, the Mexican War broke out, out of the effort for Texas to break free its bond to Mexico. Eventually, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ended the war, and came to an agreement that included setting boundaries for Texas and the acquisition of new territory- California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona,…
This created a hot debate over the war itself and the spread of slavery. In 1846 a congressman introduced an amendment to a spending bill, Wilmot Proviso. The bill asserted that slavery wouldn’t be allowed to exist in the territory acquired from Mexico (Dusinberre 148). Polk found the entire bill to be “foolish and mischievous”, believing that there was no connection between peace with Mexico and slavery (Nevins 138). Polk claimed to have no interest in extending slavery but it was noted that he was an avid slave owner and many even considered racist. He even bought and sold slaves while in the White House and took measures to keep it a secret (Nevins…
The demise of the Whigs was rather a consequence of the ideological homogeneity that had escaped them. Portland was driven away from Fox because their priorities did not allow common ground. He was to become aligned with Pitt because theirs did. Whilst Fox valued liberty above all else, Portland did not; he was anxious for the maintenance of social order. The French Revolution made this impossible to go on ignored for, in the face of the tumult over events in France, the new political scene, as set by Burke’s Reflections, was rapidly drawn into an ordered spectrum of radical and conservative thought.…
The Virginia Plan, New Jersey Plan, and the Great Compromise was a big part of America’s future. The Virginia Plan was for a legislative branch. It placed the broad outlines of what became the U.S. Constitution. The New Jersey Plan was a Small State Plan. It was a structure for the United States. The Great Compromise saved the Constitutional Convention. This had to do with the House and the Senate. All of these plans have played a big role in the way that America is today.…
Have you ever wondered what the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo actually was? It was a treaty that both America and Mexico signed in order to end a conflict between the 2. Why did President Polk go around Mexico and dock in Mexico instead of going through Texas and Mexico? He did this to have the element of surprise over Mexico instead of attacking them straight on.…
The Great Compromise was the solution to struggle of representation in the Legislative Branch during the U.S Constitutional Convention in 1787. The states with bigger populations like Virginia favored the Virginia Plan. The Virginia Plan called for representation based on the amount of people living in each state. Larger states favored this plan because they would have more power in making laws. On the other hand, smaller states like Delaware favored the New Jersey Plan, under which each state would send the same amount of representatives to Congress. Smaller states favored this because it meant equal power for everyone. This problem was solved by Roger Sherman. He proposed a bicameral legislature. Each state, as suggested by Sherman, would send an equal amount of Representatives to the House of Senate, and one representative for every 30,000 citizens to the House of Representatives. Today, the variable number of members of the House of Representatives is based on the State’s population as reported in the most recent decennial census. The process of determining the number of members of the House from each state is known as apportionment. Apportionment is the process of allocating the 435 House seats among the states according to each state’s population.…
At the end of WW1 there were many issues that needed to be sorted out. The winning allies, George Clemenceau, Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson all knew that this had to be settled in a peace treaty. They each had different items on their agenda that they wanted to be included in the Treaty of Versailles.…
