JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
JACKSONIAN AMERICA
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He wanted to go to the Atlantic Ocean.
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He wanted to go to the Pacific Ocean
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He wanted the USA to be from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
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He wanted to go to Arctic to the Indian Ocean
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Detailed explanation-1: -He was a champion of manifest destiny–the belief that the United States was fated to expand across the North American continent–and by the end of his four years in office, the nation extended, for the first time, from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean.
Detailed explanation-2: -Under Polk, Manifest Destiny was put into action with the annexation of the nominally independent Texas and the ceding from Mexico of parts of nine states.
Detailed explanation-3: -More than any other President, Polk pursued “Manifest Destiny, ” a phrase coined by his fellow Jacksonian Democrat, John L. O’Sullivan, to express the conviction that Providence had foreordained the United States to spread its republican institutions across North America.
Detailed explanation-4: -US President James K. Polk (1845-1849) is the leader most associated with Manifest Destiny.
Detailed explanation-5: -James Knox Polk was the 11th president of the United States of America (1845-1849). As President he oversaw the largest territorial expansion in American history-over a million square miles of land-acquired through a treaty with England and war with Mexico.