By Thomas M. Leonard
James okay. Polk's 4 years in workplace marked the best interval of territorial acquisition within the background of the country-what long island journalist John O'Sullivan termed because the 'Manifest future' of the us to extend around the continent. by way of the tip of Polk's presidency in 1849, U.S. possessions incorporated the California, Oregon, and New Mexico territories. additionally, Texas had turn into a part of the Union.
This ebook analyzes Polk's political profession and his position in each one of those territorial expansions. James ok. Polk: a transparent and Unquestionable Destiny exhibits that they have been way more complicated than the ethical campaign that were categorised 'Manifest Destiny.' Southern planters desired to shield their 'peculiar establishment' of slavery through including new territories from which slave states will be carved. advertisement pursuits feared that struggle with England over any of those territories may adversely impression upon the nation's alternate. even if the Oregon boundary dispute was once settled with little friction, the Mexican struggle erupted after the annexation of Texas.
This interesting biography of our 11th president and his profitable efforts for growth of U.S. territory should be of curiosity to scholars learning usa heritage, international coverage, and the big territorial enlargement within the 1840s referred to as happen Destiny.
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