When Harrison Ruffin Tyler's grandfather was born 235 years ago in 1790, George Washington had just become the nation's first ...

After the Texas Revolution, when European powers tried to wield influence over the independent Republic of Texas, President James Polk ... of Cuba and the annexation of Puerto Rico, the ...

This confluence of factors, which captured the nationalistic energy of Manifest Destiny, deeply informed how President James K ... with the U.S. annexation of the Republic of Texas and its ...

supported states' rights and argued for the annexation of Texas and the Oregon Territory.1845-1849 | Buchanan served as secretary of state under James Polk. This came at a time of great national ...

Madison became America’s first wartime commander in chief, which sets him apart from the first dozen presidents, excepting James K. Polk ... addition to Florida’s annexation, Monroe’s ...

They Might Be Giants has a song about James K. Polk. The former art director of ... helped Jews flee Europe to the port of Galveston, Texas. As president, he was a staunch supporter of Israel.

James K. Polk won the presidency in 1845 on an explicitly expansionist ... The term manifest destiny was coined by journalist John O’Sullivan that year in an essay praising the annexation of Texas and ...

James Knox Polk, eleventh President of the United ... journalist John O'Sullivan that year in an essay praising the annexation of Texas and looking ahead to California — then part of Mexico ...

Walker, the former treasury secretary under President James K. Polk and an avowed American expansionist. At various points, he advocated the acquisition of Texas, all of Mexico, Danish possessions ...

(President James ... What propelled Polk to the nomination and then past Henry Clay in the general election was, more than anything, Texas. The burning issue of the day was the annexation of ...