by jimmypolkeditor | Mar 17, 2020 | Mexican-American War
Today, March 17, is Saint Patrick’s day. Saint Patrick played a major role in the Mexican-American war as the symbol for many disaffected immigrants who deserted to join the Mexican Army during the war. Some of the fiercest battles of the two-year conflagration were...
by jimmypolkeditor | Dec 20, 2019 | Manifest Destiny
The Young United States’ first territory to border the Pacific ocean was the Oregon territory in the Northwest. But it did not come without struggle; the disaffected British Empire would not pass up a chance to block the expansion of their former colony. Both...
by jimmypolkeditor | Jul 29, 2018 | Politics
By 1844, the political career of James K. Polk was in ruins. He sat at his plantation in central Tennessee, not licking his wounds, but rather planning how to get ahead again. Polk’s prospects of holding public office had come to a standstill since his failed...
by jimmypolkeditor | Jul 15, 2018 | Economy
On the eighth day of June, 1845, Andrew Jackson lay dying at his estate, the Hermitage, in Central Tennessee. A war hero, a governor, a congressman, and President of the United States, he had accomplished much. But as his body gave out, surrounded by his three adopted...