Taylor Administration - Foreign Issues
Foreign Issues
In the middle of the nineteenth century when Zachary Taylor became the United States's 12th president, the continental United States was about the size that it is today. During the 1840s Americans insisted that Manifest Destiny dictated that the United States should extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. In 1846 the United States and Great Britain agreed to divide the Oregon Territory along the 49th parallel, giving the United States sole possession of the area south of that line.
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