The fact that Italy is shaped like a boot made it a good place for ships to stop because a lot of cities were on the water, and cities were a perfect place to sell or trade goods. Hope it help!
The Tyler and Polk administrations
Both administrations strongly supported American westward expansion.
John Tyler pressed for the annexation of Texas as a slave state during his administration (1841-45) and at the end of it, he signed a Texas annexation bill into law, which was admitted as a state in the first year of Polk's presidency.
James K. Polk, who ruled from 1845 to 1849, also supported American expansion to the point he led the U.S. into the Mexican-American War (1846-48) in which the U.S. gained what is today California and much of the present-day Southwest.
After his victory of the union in Virginia, he decided to take the fight to Maryland because it was a slave holding state.
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