James K. Polk

Polk's family consisting of his parents, 2 sisters and 2 brothers moved to unimproved farmland in Tennessee in 1805 when Polk was 10. (2 more sisters and 3 more brothers were born into the family in Tennessee.

He changed the way you were taxed for shipping items. Instead of being taxed for the quantity of the item, you were taxed for the quality if the item.

Zachary Taylor was next after Polk.

No- Polk did not fight in duels. He relied on the law and his speaking skills to deal with adversaries. Aaron Burr and Andrew Jackson both shot others in duels.

No. He tried to negotiate a peaceful settlement of the issues that produced the war. He did seem to believe that California and most of the land east of California would inevitably fall under US control, a belief known as "manifest destiny".

James Polk

from Tennessee

saw the United States

stretch from sea to shining sea in

one term.

Polk never served in the US military.

no- not in the sense that he obtained any patents or is known as an inventor.

The Polk dollar was minted in 2009.

• Polk was the oldest of 10 children.
• He had no children of his own.
• He is known as a "Dark Horse" candidate, even though he had been the Speaker of the US House and governor of Tennessee
• He the only President who was once Speaker of the House
• He accomplished all of his goals as President and refused to run for a second term.
• Polk died barely three months after leaving office
• He was baptized six days before his death.
• His wife buried him in the front lawn of their new house where she lived for another 42 years.

Polk was a slaveholder who promised to bring Texas into the Union.

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Polk won more states- 15 - 11 was the score in states.

Supported expansion

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Yes. George Polk, a famous CBS reporter who was murdered in Greece at the start of the Cold War and Leonidas Polk, one of the more controversial Generals of the Civil War (he was also an Episcobal bishop). There are also more.

His birth certificate was claimed fake. Some believed he was not indeed a U.S. citizen. Black mail, is what stopped him from running for his 2nd term.

James Buchanan.

No. in fact no amendments were ratified between 1804 (12th which modified the election of the president and VP) and 1865 (the 13th which abolished slavery.)

Following the Battle of Buena Vista, President Polk wanted General Zachary Taylor to move south and conquer Mexico City. However, it was almost impossible to supply General Taylor's army in such an endeavor. The supply lines would have been too long.

To continue the nations's westward expansion. Manifest Destiny! Knew it would attract to crowded east coasters to the west where they could try their luck getting rich quick.

Albert Einstein

he had a alligator and a rhino, hippo, too.

This was the Oregon Treaty which established the boundary between the Oregon Territory and Canada.

Polk was a Southerner and an expansionist. He believed in the right to run the country from sea to sea. I am not so sure he wanted to expand slavery. I think he may have had some household slaves, but was not a big slave-owner.