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Legacy of an Autocratic Ruler: Emergence of the Whig Party
Andrew Jackson's forceful, some would claim tyrannical, tactics create deep political divisions and spawn the emergence of a new political party, the Whigs. The Whigs and the Democrats differ from one another in terms of constituencies, the characte...
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Manifest Destiny?: U. S. and Mexico Clash Over Boundary Dispute
Texas is officially annexed in the mid 1840s during the administration of James Polk. Many historians believe that Polk then engineers a border dispute with Mexico to gain western territory the country had been attempting to purchase for years. When...