Graduated from the University of North Carolina (1818).
Studied law with Felix Gundy, who was a delegate to the Kentucky State Constitutional Convention, Member of the Kentucky House of Representatives,.
Justice of the Kentucky State Supreme Court and later, U.S. Attorney General.
III. Occupations.
A. Admitted to the bar in Tennessee (1820).
B. State Legislator of Tennessee (1823-1825).
C. U.S. Representative (1825-1839).
D. Speaker of the House (1835-1839).
E. Governor of Tennessee (1839-1841).
IV. Term of Presidency.
A. 1845-1849.
V. Important issues of the election.
A. The re-annexation of Texas.
B. Threatening war with Great Britain over the Oregon Boundary.
VI. Major Opposition of the election.
A. Henry Clay (Whig).
VII. Vice President.
A. George M. Dallas.
VIII. Political Party.
A. Democrat.
IX. Major Domestic Happenings:.
A. Texas entered the Union in 1845. Signed as a joint annexation under the Tyler administration made all of Texas U.S. property. Mexico did not recognize this annexation.
B. Wilmot Proviso (1846) David Wilmot, a Democratic Congressman, presented the amendment to a bill put before the U.S. House of Representatives during the Mexican War. It provided an appropriation of $2 million to enable President Polk to negotiate a territorial settlement with Mexico. The bill also stipulated that none of the territory acquired in the Mexican War should be open to slavery. The amended bill was passed in the House, but the Senate adjourned without voting on it. Then in the next session of Congress, in 1847, a new bill providing for a $3- million appropriation was introduced, and Wilmot again tried to attach an antislavery amendment to it. The amended bill passed the House, but the Senate drew up its own bill, which did not include the proviso. The Wilmot Proviso created bitterness between the North and the South and helped crystallize the conflict over the extension of slavery.
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President James Knox Polk was born on November 2, 1849 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. James Polk lived with nine other siblings and his father who was a businessman, land surveyor and planter. When James was ten years old him and his family joined the Tennessee frontier in his family's beat up wagon to join his grandfather. luckily James's family prospered by owning thousands of acres of land and with over fifty slaves working for his family on the frontier. ... By the time he was seventeen James had to get surgery because of the stones he had in his bladder. ... During the ...
James Knox Polk, 11th President of the United States was born on a farm in Mecklenburg County, NC on November 2, 1795, the oldest of ten children of Samuel and Jane Knox Polk. ... James Polk was not a promising youth, being too sickly for frontier occupations and too poorly educated for a professional career. ... In 1825, Polk entered the U.S. ... Martin Van Buren was the leading candidate in the 1844 presidential election and James Polk was a potential candidate for the vice presidency. ... James Knox Polk retired to Nashville, Tennessee and died there only three months after leaving offic...
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President James K. Polk believed that he had to restore diplomatic relations, so he sent a special temporary envoy to Mexico. ... Polk and his cabinet prepared a declaration of war. ... Polk was very anxious to purchase California from Mexico and he knew that Mexico would refuse to give it up. ... Polk, Lincoln, and Reagan were presidents during a war. ...
Expressed in a letter from President James K. Polk to US Senator William H. ... President Polk assured that all military and naval movements would not attack unless aggressed upon. ... In the diary of President James K. Polk, he wanted to create a permanent boundary between Mexico and the US, and that to do so the American Minister in Mexico was instructed to purchase any territory necessary. ...
President James Polk, during his presidency, had a vision to fulfill the manifest destiny by expanding the power and the borders of the United States. Mexico was not very happy with the United States annexing part of "their" territory and reacted violently, but Polk attempted to make peace. Polk viewed that the "land was necessary to the U.S. simply as a right of way to the ocean ports" (Document D). ... The rejection of this proposed treaty and the concept of the manifest destiny inspired Polk to protect the U.S.'... The Mexicans reacted by also installing troops on the border for protec...
With more and more Americans moving into Texas, the territory seemed promising to newly elected United States President James K. Polk (Mexican-American War (Causes)). ... Davy Crockett and James Bowie were among the notable and memorable soldiers defending the Alamo. After defeating and ceasing rebel forces in the Alamo, the Mexican army moved on to Goliad where another small Texas force commanded by James Fannin surrendered. ... During the revolution President James Polk sent General Zachary Taylor to occupy the disputed territory in March 1846, having instructed him to advance aggressively u...
Upon James Polk's election in 1844 the idea of Manifest Destiny had sparked a renewed interest (after Louisiana purchase there was interest also) in the expansion of the United States. Polk used the "Manifest Destiny" ideal as part of his campaign, a campaign which Polk had based around promise to expand into Oregon. Because Polk was elected to be president, he at the least represents the majority of the American public. ... Even before Polk got into power there was still a large degree of political intrigue over expansion, in the west especially. ... Knowing that they had the power t...
