James Polk manifest destiny President acquired Oregon Territory Texas California and American Southwest vintage Easton Press book Volume 2

In four years Polk nearly doubled the territory of the U.S. On the northern border, Polk’s supporters rallied around the expansionist slogan “54°40’ or Fight,” demanding the U.S. take over the entire Pacific Northwest up to that latitude, then the southern boundary of Russian Alaska, even if it meant going to war with Britain. Instead, in 1846 Polk negotiated a treaty that established the U.S.’s northern border at the 49th parallel. In the Southwest, Polk annexed Texas and fought the Mexican-American War, which ended in Mexico ceding more than 500,000 square miles to the U.S., including all of California, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, and parts of Colorado and Wyoming, in exchange for $15 million.

CONDITION: VG We strive to provide excellent service! Bound in full maroon leather, covers and spine decorated in gilt, all edges gilt, decorative paper endpapers, ribbon page marker.

ABOUT: James Polk volume 2
Charles Sellers
The Easton Press 1987
The Library of the Presidents Series.
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