Tyler Administration - Domestic Issues
Domestic Issues
When John Tyler assumed the office of president in 1841, the population of the United States had nearly doubled over the past 20 years—from 9.6 million to more than 17 million. As the population grew it began to move westward, and as these migrations increased, the precarious matter of slavery continued to create intense animosity between North and South. The Democratic predecessor, Martin Van Buren, had avoided any expansion that might agitate the sectional divide, but as the newly free republic of Texas voiced its desire to join the Union, southern expansionists began to clamor for annexation.
Within the government itself there was little agreement over what kind of nation the United States should be, or how it should be governed. The old Federalist/Anti-Federalist Party division (See also, Thomas Jefferson...
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