James K Polk
antislavery forces.
Franklin Pierce was the weak democratic president whose pro-southern cabinet pushed aggressive expansionist schemes. Pierce signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. This act turned Kansas into a battleground for the country's conflict over slavery.
Briefly, anybody who is in favour of the policies to expand the territory of the land/state he/she belongs to is a pro-expansionist person....
Yes they were expansionists.
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The term Evil Empire refers to the Soviet Union. It was used by former United States president Ronald Reagan to criticize the expansionist and oppressive policies of the Soviet Union.
James K. Polk ran for president in the election of 1844. He was the Democratic nominee and won the election, defeating Whig candidate Henry Clay. Polk's campaign focused on expansionist themes, including the annexation of Texas and the acquisition of Oregon. He served as the 11th president of the United States from 1845 to 1849.
"To what extent should nations respond with diplomacy to the expansionist policies of other states?"
Since he was president during WWII and we wouldn't let almost any Chinese people in the US because they bombed Pearl Harbor I don't think he really liked it.
President Polk was the front man for Stone-wall Jackson and his aggressive expansionist tendencies. Both those territories were taken as prizes of war. A War that President Polk provoked in the name of Manifest Destiny. won and never got to enjoy since he died early in his retirement.
No he was an expansionist who favored the war.
No, he was not, he was an uneducated dictator.