MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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Polk promised he wanted Oregon bad enough to risk starting a war with Great Britain to obtain it.
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Polk promised every citizen a fifty-four dollar and forty cent tax rebate if he was elected.
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Polk promised he would not rest until the United States had annexed all of Oregon Country.
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Polk promised to add alliteration to the constitution so it would be catchier and more easily remembered.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In the national popular vote, Polk beat Clay by fewer than 40, 000 votes, a margin of 1.4%. James G. Birney of the anti-slavery Liberty Party won 2.3% of the vote. As President, Polk completed American annexation of Texas, which was the proximate cause of the Mexican–American War.
Detailed explanation-2: -James K. Polk gained the presidency in 1844 in part on the Democratic Party’s expansionist pledge to seize all of the Oregon territory for the United States. America had jointly occupied Oregon with Britain since 1818, when the two nations began negotiating over a final boundary in the territory.
Detailed explanation-3: -Polk had accused Mexican troops of having attacked Americans on U.S. soil, north of the Rio Grande. But Mexico claimed this land as its own territory and accused the American military of having invaded.