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James Knox Polk (/ p oʊ k /; [1] November 2, 1795 – June 15, 1849) was the 11th president of the United States, serving from 1845 to 1849. A protégé of Andrew Jackson and a member of the Democratic Party , he was an advocate of Jacksonian democracy and extending the territory of the United States.
This is a timeline of the main events of the Cold War, a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union, its allies in the Warsaw Pact and later the People's Republic of China).
The presidency of James K. Polk began on March 4, 1845, when James K. Polk was inaugurated as the 11th President of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1849. He was a Democrat , and assumed office after defeating Whig Henry Clay in the 1844 presidential election .
This is a list of military conflicts, that United States has been involved in. There are currently 123 military conflicts on this list, 5 of which are ongoing. These include major conflicts like the American Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, the American Civil War, the Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II and the Gulf War.
James K. Polk becomes the 11th president of the United States on March 4, 1845; The Republic of Texas is admitted to the Union as the State of Texas (the 28th state) on December 29, 1845; Mexican–American War, April 23, 1846 – February 2, 1848 The United States declares war on Mexico, May 11, 1846; Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed on ...
Polk would nearly break his party and sow the seeds of the sectional crisis that would lead ultimately to the Civil War. He started a war with Mexico on the most dubious grounds . He brawled and ...
The Democratic Party's platform of manifest destiny reached its pinnacle under the direction of James K. Polk, directing westward expansion, justifying the Texas annexation, leading the United States into the Mexican–American War. By the end of Polk's term, the country had claimed most of the present-day Southwestern United States.
President James K. Polk directed U.S. foreign policy from 1845 to 1849. The history of U.S. foreign policy from 1829 to 1861 concerns the foreign policy of the United States during the presidential administrations of Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, and James Buchanan.