FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Now to “Young Hickory” - James K. Polk. Prior to becoming ... President Polk in his push to acquire the Oregon Territory would also risk war with Great Britain.

the Oregon Territory, and the Mexican Cession after winning the Mexican–American War. Wikipedia* On the C-SPAN Networks: James K. Polk has zero videos in the C-SPAN Video Library. Ideology data ...

From sea to shining sea” may very well have served as the professional motto of James K. Polk, our 11th president. Although ...

Challenges: James K. Polk was an avowed expansionist, committed to acquiring California and New Mexico from Mexico even at the risk of war. Polk acquired the then British-held territory of Oregon and ...

It was never James K. Polk’s intention to run for president ... Not long after the ink was dry on the Oregon treaty, Polk sent the Army to Texas, to enforce a congressional resolution admitting ...

James K. Polk was in the epicenter of it all ... He called for extension into Texas and California as well as maintaining the Oregon Territory’s northern boundary at 54 degrees, 40 minutes.

(President James K Polk 1860 (Photo by ... Washington, Idaho, and Oregon, as well as parts of what would later become Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Wyoming, and Montana. It was, to say the least ...

James K. Polk, the original "dark horse" candidate ... Billed as the "Manifest Destiny" candidate, Polk negotiated the Oregon territory to the north. His attempt to acquire California and New ...