JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
PRESIDENT ANDREW JACKSON
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Question
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He was committed to fulfilling the goals of Manifest Destiny.
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He favored the policy of popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territories.
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He was against removing American Indians from their native lands.
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He opposed the extension of slavery west of the Mississippi River.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What was one reason James K. Polk won the presidential election of 1844? He was against removing American Indians from their native lands. He favored the policy of popular sovereignty in the Kansas and Nebraska territories.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -US President James K. Polk (1845-1849) is the leader most associated with Manifest Destiny. Manifest Destiny inflamed sectional tensions over slavery, which ultimately led to the Civil War.
Detailed explanation-4: -Manifest destiny was grounded in the belief that a democratic, agrarian republic would save the world. John O’Sullivan, shown here in a 1874 Harper’s Weekly sketch, coined the phrase “manifest destiny” in an 1845 newspaper article.
Detailed explanation-5: -It stemmed from the annexation of the Republic of Texas by the U.S. in 1845 and from a dispute over whether Texas ended at the Nueces River (the Mexican claim) or the Rio Grande (the U.S. claim).