1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
masya89 [10]
3 years ago
15

Many historians consider the James K. Polk presidency to be considerably aggressive and/or controversial. How do you rate the pr

esidency of James Polk? Great? Good? Average? Poor? Awful? To what extent did his single term in office help or hinder the development of the United States? What is the basis of your conclusion?
History
1 answer:
Maurinko [17]3 years ago
5 0

James K Polk is one of the historical figures that is really hard to judge by modern standards.

He was a forceful man with strongly held beliefs. He was the last in the line of "Jacksonian Presidents" with all of the baggage that came along with that.

Ultimately, he was a strong war time President. His single term in office led to the short lived Presidency of Zachary Taylor, who was significantly less informed and forceful than Polk. After Polk, the issue of slavery really came to the forefront. Polk was either responsible for delaying the prominence of this issue or just got lucky. It is likely that history would look much differently if Polk had a second term and continued his aggressive posture towards America's future.

I'd say he was a good President, for his time, who strongly acted on the economy and in regards to Mexico but whose record looks abysmal by modern standards and values.



You might be interested in
How was the conflict in Cambodia an example of a proxy war?
Colt1911 [192]

The United States supported forces fighting against Pol Pot and  the Khmer Rouge, even though the United States wasn't directly  involved in the conflict.

Option A

<u>Explanation: </u>

Proxy wars can also have an enormous effect, particularly in the locality. However, thousands of unexploded bombs have been killing in the battle since the war had ended in Cambodia and Laos, not just in Vietnam.

Khmer Rouge, a socialist party headed by the Pol Pot who ruled Cambodia following its 1975 success in the Cambodian Civil War, committed the ethnic cleansing of Cambodia that killed between 1.5 and 2 million people, representing almost 25% of the Cambodian population.

It is claimed that, during the Cambodian-Vietnam War, the US The United States trained and equipped the Khmer Rouge directly to destroy Vietnam and the Ussr  influence in Southeast Asia.

There's no reason to think that, even after 1979, when the Khmer Rouge was mostly ousted by Vietnam and governed a small part of the country, the United States encouraged the government of China to provide military training and support to the Khmer Rouges, and that America voted for a Khmer Rouge to continue the country's official member at UN.

3 0
3 years ago
1. adopt on a country-wide scale 2. campaign the director of a political agenda whose goal is to place a chosen candidate in off
VLD [36.1K]

Answer: Please see in the explanation column

Explanation:

1)on a country-wide scale -----National level

2)the director of a political agenda whose goal is to place a chosen candidate in office---- campaign manager.

3)a unified and organized effort with a goal in mind---- Campaign

4) an issue that may not be agreed upon by many different sides, and causes many debates----controversial

5)to accept and agree upon --- adopt

6)on a smaller, non-widespread scale--- local level

5 0
4 years ago
Humans migrated to the following areas in which order? Use the map.
pentagon [3]
My oppinon I think its C.I might be wrong but that might make the most since.
3 0
3 years ago
#4 - Which words from paragraph 2 help the reader understand the meaning of
Anestetic [448]
C, a little depressed. Brooding is close to showing deep unhappiness of thought.
5 0
2 years ago
Which statement is an opinion?
Scrat [10]

Answer:

B.

Explanation:

B. More Americans should consider switching to vegetarian or vegan diets.

7 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Other questions:
  • Which was NOT a key feature of feudal Japan a. Centralized government was modeled on Chinese bureaucracy. b. Elaborate protocol
    8·1 answer
  • Explain how the states were represented under the Articles of Confederation.
    8·1 answer
  • Who is mr. Moscovitz from ashes of roses
    14·1 answer
  • What is the most important thing you can do to participate in government and politics?
    5·2 answers
  • The Protestant Reformation increased rivalries between nations because of ____________.
    8·2 answers
  • Three specific powers of the executive branch ​
    9·2 answers
  • according to Locke, what rights do men possess? What's is the purpose of government? What type of government does he propose?
    15·1 answer
  • How was the television created?
    12·1 answer
  • Montezuma believed that Cortés was the legendary god Quetzalcoatl, who had left Mexico and promised to return in 1519. In the fo
    7·1 answer
  • As a result of the defeat of Japan in world war II, Nationalists and Communists were able to resume their struggly for control o
    12·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!