Bell Work: What is the problem with adding new states in the 1840's?
Election of 1844: James K Polk vs. Henry Clay
- Northern border of US
- immediate anexation of Texas
- expansion into New Mexico, California, and Arizona
- Oregon Treaty with Britain (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana)
- Tried to buy southwest
- Provoked until Mexico attacked
- Mexican-American War 1846
- Slavery
- Slave Power
- Gag rule
- Wilmot Proviso
- Free-Soil Party
Zachery Taylor won election of 1848
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