. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. of 1845-46, Calhoun, to thegreat embarrassment of President Polk and the Democraticparty, proposed 49° as a compromise line. After much partybacki
. The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts. of 1845-46, Calhoun, to thegreat embarrassment of President Polk and the Democraticparty, proposed 49° as a compromise line. After much partybacking and filling, and long negotiation, a treaty was agreedupon, June 15, 1846, which was ratified by the Senate, theWhigs coming to the rescue of the President, saving him fromhis party friends and the country from war. The treaty fixed49° N. lat. as the boundary, as originally proposed by necessitated an immense cession of land—all between thesouthern limit claimed by Great Britain and the 49°—to theUnited States. It amounted to 308,052 square miles, and thecession was called The Cession by the Oregon Treaty of were cured the defects of the treaty of purchase of 1803,with France, and the Ashburton treaty of 1842, with GreatBritain. ANNEXATION OF TEXAS^—Texas had been a State of * As Texas came directly into the Union as a Stale, see further about her historyin connection with the S^a^e of Texas, next 108 I I
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