Add to ORKGAs a plantation owner, James K. Polk had economic interests which were bound to that peculiar institution. Consequently, many of his decisions as a politician were influenced by his southern background. Although his partiality toward"southern rights" was evident, he did not let his personal bias interfere with his determination to preserve the nation. Throughout his public career, he maintained that slavery was being exploited as a "political question" to divide the United States. Even though his opponents branded him a "sectionalist" for his position on the issues of Texas annexation, the Mexican War, and slavery in the territories, he still remained a staunch nationalist. This study proves that James K. Polk's "southern convictions" were ...
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Historians of the Nullification Crisis often argue that the leaders of the nineteenth century South ...
It is most interesting, indeed, to try and understand the thinking of eighteenth-century philosopher...
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The essentially tragic political fate of the American South in the nineteenth century resulted from ...
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Many scholars of the Reconstruction era have examined James Webb Throckmorton??s political career be...
As the home state of President Andrew Jackson, Tennessee has often provided the subject of study for...
During the Antebellum Era, many of Thomas Jefferson’s concepts became part of the great debate that ...
Historians of the Nullification Crisis often argue that the leaders of the nineteenth century South ...
It is most interesting, indeed, to try and understand the thinking of eighteenth-century philosopher...
This article explores the relationship between President James K. Polk’s progressive ambition in the...
The major concern of this study is an attempt to analyze the attitudes.of Henry Clay, United States ...
This work is a study of white Texans' attitudes toward their role in the federal Union and their rig...
This paper discusses James K. Polk and his stance on the annexation of Texas as well as the differen...
This work demonstrates the importance of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in stirring sectional awareness and...
This project traces American slaveholding attitudes toward international affairs from British emanci...
This thesis presents the several aspects of John Caldwell Calhoun\u27s life that could have caused h...
This thesis examines the issue of Texas annexation from the viewpoints of two southern cities: Richm...
The essentially tragic political fate of the American South in the nineteenth century resulted from ...
https://kent-islandora.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/ugresearch/2019/2019all/182/thumbnail.jpgThe topic...
Many scholars of the Reconstruction era have examined James Webb Throckmorton??s political career be...
As the home state of President Andrew Jackson, Tennessee has often provided the subject of study for...
During the Antebellum Era, many of Thomas Jefferson’s concepts became part of the great debate that ...
Historians of the Nullification Crisis often argue that the leaders of the nineteenth century South ...
It is most interesting, indeed, to try and understand the thinking of eighteenth-century philosopher...