History After 1820

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Congress said. Instead, Tyler fought with Congress on every issue possible. Tyler was unpopular with the people because he did not keep Harrison's inaugural promises. He also remarried while in office with a woman about half his age which is not a very presidential thing to do during the 1840's. Tyler was not re-elected. In 1844, Polk was elected president with his "All of Oregon or nothing" slogan. Polk was a expansionist and believed in "Manifest Destiny" , which is the belief that the United States should stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Polk then began his expansion with Texas. Congress voted to annex Texas in February 1845 and joined the Union officially in December, but there was a problem. The U.S. and Mexico could not agree on the southern boundary of Texas. Mexico said the boundary is the Nueces river and the U.S. said it was the Rio Grande. Polk sent Zachary Taylor and his army to advance across the Nueces. There the U.S. troops were attacked by ...

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join as a free or slave state. The extremist on both sides of the vote began murdering their opponents. The abolitionist John Brown led the Pottawatoime Massacre in May 1856 where several pro-slavery activist were slaughtered. William Quantrill and his raiders slaughtered several abolitionist, though Kansas still became a slave state.
Dred Scott was a slave of a U.S. Army officer who moved with Scott from Missouri, a slave state, to Illinois area which is considered free soil. Later, Scott's master dies and he sues claiming himself a free man. This case was carried to the Supreme court where they made the infamous Dred Scott decision, which states Scott is a slave and has no right ...

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