https://padlet.com/417851/fapt6ficuqax By Yailin Sanchez en-us 2019-01-23 21:01:59 UTC 2019-02-21 19:03:48 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Terminator.png 417851 https://padlet.com/417851/fapt6ficuqax/wish/323707752 * James K. Polk was the 11th president 
* Born in November 2, 1795
* Died June 15 184]]> 2019-01-23 22:06:34 UTC https://padlet.com/417851/fapt6ficuqax/wish/323707752 417851 https://padlet.com/417851/fapt6ficuqax/wish/323708684 *Polk was the eldest child of Samuel and Jane Knox Polk. At age 11 he moved with his family to Tennessee, where his father operated a prosperous farm in Maury county. Although ill health during his childhood made formal schooling impossible, Polk successfully passed, at age 20, the entrance requirements for the second-year class at the University of North Carolina. He was “correct, punctual, and industrious,” and as a graduating senior in 1818 he was the Latin salutatorian of his class—a preeminent scholar in both the classics and mathematics.
*]]> 2019-01-23 22:11:26 UTC https://padlet.com/417851/fapt6ficuqax/wish/323708684 417851 https://padlet.com/417851/fapt6ficuqax/wish/323708778 James K. Pplk went to University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Enrolled to Presbyterian School.
Graduated with honors in 1818]]> 2019-01-23 22:11:56 UTC https://padlet.com/417851/fapt6ficuqax/wish/323708778 417851 https://padlet.com/417851/fapt6ficuqax/wish/323708822 * Mother was Jane Polk 
* Father Samuel Polk 
*Brothers:William Hawkins Polk, Marshall Tate Polk, John Lee Polk, Franklin Ezekiel Polk,Samuel Wilson Polk
* Sisters: Jane Maria Polk, Lydia Eliza Polk, Ophelia Clarissa Polk, Naomi Tate Polk, Lydia Eliza Polk, Ophelia Clarissa Polk, Jane Maria Polk.

]]> 2019-01-23 22:12:09 UTC https://padlet.com/417851/fapt6ficuqax/wish/323708822 417851 https://padlet.com/417851/fapt6ficuqax/wish/323708868 * Under his leadership the United States fought the Mexican war (1846–48) and acquired vast territories along the Pacific coast and in the Southwest.

*The presidency of Polk was dominated by an aggressive foreign policy which saw the territory of the United States grow by more than one-thirdmaking America a coast to coast nation for the first time. ]]> 2019-01-23 22:12:20 UTC https://padlet.com/417851/fapt6ficuqax/wish/323708868 417851 https://padlet.com/417851/fapt6ficuqax/wish/323708992 * A nationwide movement of skeptics insisted that Polk's birth certificate was a forgery, and that he was actually a Turkish-born non-citizen named Klop K. Semaj. Though their case was never proven, they irritated Polk out of running for a second term.
*]]> 2019-01-23 22:13:02 UTC https://padlet.com/417851/fapt6ficuqax/wish/323708992 417851 https://padlet.com/417851/fapt6ficuqax/wish/333822070 * James K. Polk was referred to "dark horse" he was the last strong president until Civil War.
* Democrats replied Polk was the candidate who stood for expansion. He linked the Texas issue, popular in the South, with the Oregon question, attractive to the North. Polk also favored acquiring California.
* Even before he could take office, Congress passed a joint resolution offering annexation to Texas. In so doing they bequeathed Polk the possibility of war with Mexico, which soon severed diplomatic relations.]]> 2019-02-21 18:54:59 UTC https://padlet.com/417851/fapt6ficuqax/wish/333822070 417851 https://padlet.com/417851/fapt6ficuqax/wish/333826640 * K stands for Knox.
* His roommate at the University of North Carolina, William Dunn Moseley, became the first governor of Florida.
* James K. Polk is mostly known for expanding the territory of the United States. He added Texas and Wisconsin as states and secured land to the west that would one day make up the entire 48 contiguous states of the United States. 
* No second term.]]> 2019-02-21 19:01:47 UTC https://padlet.com/417851/fapt6ficuqax/wish/333826640