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  • Here's everything you need to know about James K. Polk, the 11th President of the United States, in just 60 seconds.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 135

  • @MrEzman99
    @MrEzman99 8 років тому +148

    This guy is probably the most underrated president in history.

    • @ironywhale7007
      @ironywhale7007 8 років тому +21

      uhh, Calvin Coolidge is the most underrated!

    • @MrEzman99
      @MrEzman99 8 років тому +26

      Gupta He's the most underrated Republican. Not the most underrated overall in my opinion. Polk is more underrated to me because he got EVERYTHING on his major agenda done in one term. He's one of the most successful presidents we've ever had, and it's a shame he isn't as well known as Lincoln, Washington, Roosevelt, etc.

    • @ironywhale7007
      @ironywhale7007 8 років тому +6

      ProteanGreninja definitely give you that! Manifest destiny was pretty good my dude

    • @aquilesbaeza8362
      @aquilesbaeza8362 8 років тому +4

      Viva México :(

    • @MrEzman99
      @MrEzman99 7 років тому +5

      Tong Zou Yup. He accomplished EVERY objective on his major agenda. And like you said, in just 4 YEARS.

  • @saelaird
    @saelaird 3 роки тому +45

    Man he crushed it!! Not only did he do everything he said he would... his expansion of the US was critical... critical. Without it the nation would never have been a global superpower. All in one term. Legend. Fave from now on. 100%

    • @LightKing1237
      @LightKing1237 9 місяців тому +3

      It's just really upsetting that land came at him intentionally picking a fight with Mexico and blaming them for the attack while on the other literally commiting a 2nd trail of tears with manifest destiny not to mention being a warmonger with the Mexican war...
      It's good to look at success but it's important to study the effects it had on other groups of people and to study fully what had all happened in these times

  • @ParallelNewsNetwork
    @ParallelNewsNetwork 2 роки тому +20

    It’s crazy. We all love Polk because he got u.s. so much land and territory but if we had a president like that now everyone would think he was a madman.

    • @augustuscaesar7491
      @augustuscaesar7491 Рік тому +7

      People thought he was an imperialistic madman back then. There was a lot of opposition to the Mexican-American War. Abraham Lincoln being a famous example.

    • @Eric_A3M
      @Eric_A3M Рік тому +2

      @@augustuscaesar7491 not enough for him not to get elected plus Polk had a lot of support especially from the south

    • @williamwatitwa3534
      @williamwatitwa3534 Рік тому

      The same people praising him are cursing Putin

  • @sambradley2975
    @sambradley2975 6 років тому +44

    I like JK Polk! That man got things done.

  • @sambradley2975
    @sambradley2975 5 років тому +35

    One of my absolute favorites.

  • @mikeneidlinger8857
    @mikeneidlinger8857 11 місяців тому +6

    Polk was on my father's side of the family. My father had his presidential wine set, and a few other artifacts.
    One of my relatives had hundreds of millions of dollars but he gave it away so we wouldn't have the trust fund.
    I'm happy I didn't grow up as a trust fund kid.

  • @aceofheartss1972
    @aceofheartss1972 7 років тому +93

    "America has had a few 1-term presidents."
    **shows mostly 2 term presidents**

  • @whatastud1000
    @whatastud1000 Місяць тому +2

    James K Polk scored 4 touch downs in one game in highschool football for Polk High

  • @Old_Hickory_Jackson
    @Old_Hickory_Jackson 3 роки тому +19

    My man really did speedrun the presidency

  • @robloxgamer21_official
    @robloxgamer21_official 4 роки тому +11

    Andrew Jackson:This Is TN!
    Me:This Is A Meme

  • @davidbanks566
    @davidbanks566 8 років тому +5

    The map at 1:28 suggests that the land immediately to the west of the Mississippi River was acquired during Polk's presidency.

    • @unadin4583
      @unadin4583 7 років тому +1

      I think you mean the map at 0:54. That's a very poor graphic. As you pointed out, the land west of the Mississippi was already part of America. It came from the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. It should not be colored white but the same as the eastern part of the country.

  • @Ultrox007
    @Ultrox007 4 роки тому +11

    Set goals, achieved them. You failed to mention how he also promised to break up the banks and return to the gold standard.

    • @AgeofReason
      @AgeofReason 2 роки тому

      He let all the bankers and lawyers in

  • @sambradley2975
    @sambradley2975 6 років тому +10

    George Washington served 2 terms, 1789-1797

  • @fishynishy6227
    @fishynishy6227 3 роки тому +2

    Everyone in the comments: making smart comments pointing out the mistakes
    Me who is watching this for a history assignment in 7th grade: *confused confusion*

  • @stza16
    @stza16 6 років тому +5

    1:08 Polk left office in 1849. Presidential terms normally end in odd number years.

  • @sambradley2975
    @sambradley2975 6 років тому +7

    Andrew Jackson served 2 terms, (1829-1837)

  • @davidbanks566
    @davidbanks566 8 років тому +2

    Hmmm, "to get _exclusive_ rights to the Oregon Territory "
    The problem with that statement is it suggests that the Oregon Treaty of 1846 ceded all of the land jointly administered by the USA and British interests to the USA. . From a Whig point of view, the USA lost all rights to Vancouver's Island, New Caledonia, and the Columbia District of the Hudson Bay Company.
    There was no entity named "Oregon Territory" until more than two years after the signing of treaty, though one could argue that the word exclusive does apply ... to the portion of Oregon below 49°, excluding the Island of Vancouver.

  • @tigar2913
    @tigar2913 Рік тому +2

    Best video I ever seen on my entry life :) keep doing

  • @eunaekim9216
    @eunaekim9216 3 роки тому +3

    He would have liked to get the entire Oregon territory up to 54 40, but he didn't want to start a war with Britain like he did with Mexico, so he agreed to a compromise! This must have taken great mental strength!

  • @4nub
    @4nub 6 років тому +6

    0:46 What about the Louisiana Territory??!

    • @jarrellkoo3619
      @jarrellkoo3619 6 років тому +2

      4nub that was Jefferson

    • @Christbepraised
      @Christbepraised 3 роки тому +2

      Under Jefferson.
      Madison and Gallatin were the ones who sold it to Napoleon for 15 million dollars

  • @sambradley2975
    @sambradley2975 6 років тому +5

    Thomas Jefferson served 2 terms. (1801-1809).

  • @revinhatol
    @revinhatol 2 роки тому +2

    Polk started the Manifest Destiny, Taylor and Filmore ended it.

    • @BryanHistory
      @BryanHistory 2 роки тому

      Manifest destiny was started and completed with Polk. Technically Texas was annexed under Tyler.

  • @rebeccatamma9085
    @rebeccatamma9085 6 років тому +5

    I will be president someday

    • @anonymouscitizen8920
      @anonymouscitizen8920 5 років тому +2

      Rebecca Tamma well since Trump is president that can tell you anyone can be president

    • @johnb.8687
      @johnb.8687 2 роки тому +1

      In the news the other day you said you would bring back the death penalty for babies, why would you say something so controversial?

  • @abrahamlincoln8037
    @abrahamlincoln8037 2 роки тому +1

    0:44 That's Zachary Taylor Not Polk

  • @redjirachi1
    @redjirachi1 5 років тому +4

    Trump: *Heavy breathing*

  • @isaacbibic2532
    @isaacbibic2532 Рік тому +1

    in the begining they where just 2 terms presidents

  • @marekmaliton3751
    @marekmaliton3751 8 років тому +3

    I like this

  • @rastudies6367
    @rastudies6367 7 років тому +2

    Jackson had two terms. of sure why he has a photo on the row of one term present

    • @unadin4583
      @unadin4583 7 років тому +1

      Are you referring to the part at the beginning where they are panning past different presidential portraits? I don't think they are suggesting that all of them are one-termers.

    • @yourmama3515
      @yourmama3515 5 років тому

      She was comparing Polk with them

  • @sidman456
    @sidman456 4 роки тому +1

    Hello there again

  • @currseddent9373
    @currseddent9373 3 роки тому

    Things go so fast

  • @AgeofReason
    @AgeofReason 2 роки тому

    He let a lot of lawyers and bankers in

  • @GoFartherPodcast
    @GoFartherPodcast 2 роки тому

    Did they mean to include images of Washington, Jackson, and Jefferson in the list of “one-term” presidents? They can’t have meant to do that

  • @dominicmurray394
    @dominicmurray394 Рік тому

    My favorite democratic president (and perhaps my only favorite democratic president aside from Andrew Jackson) and my third overall favorite president.

  • @bobbycraig6168
    @bobbycraig6168 5 років тому +1

    What If Polk Had Decided To Run For Re-Election In The Year Of 1848 And Had Won A Second Term And Just How And What Exactly Would He Have Done For The Still Expanding United States And Also To Wonder Exactly Just What The Future Of The Southern States Have Been Like If Polk Had Served Up Until 1852 To Be Exact ????
    🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔????

  • @AKhoja
    @AKhoja 4 роки тому +3

    Boooo
    Your map includes the territory of the Gadsden Purchase, which didn't happen until nearly 10 years later.
    But hey, it's important to laugh about the Gadsden Purchase. That's what life's all about.

  • @JamesKPolk-bl7rz
    @JamesKPolk-bl7rz 4 роки тому +2

    What up

    • @desinicole9115
      @desinicole9115 Рік тому

      O my gosh is that you Polk but how your dead

  • @GamerComeDies
    @GamerComeDies 6 років тому +1

    Wait... iHOLA! is Spanish not Mexican I do not know Spanish

  • @nghiadang4634
    @nghiadang4634 5 років тому +1

    In the future FDR will serve the most terms

  • @DarkKing009
    @DarkKing009 6 років тому +1

    American will have all the living space

  • @lucyzellner4147
    @lucyzellner4147 2 роки тому

    I look this video up I’m related to him

  • @annguyendoan7189
    @annguyendoan7189 Рік тому

    Giáng thần 2003 (65)

  • @annguyendoan7189
    @annguyendoan7189 Рік тому

    Đồng bào hải ngoại hỏi thẳng gia đình bác tổng vàng hay dỏ/ không nên kéo dài cuộc chiến

  • @paulisaperson0516
    @paulisaperson0516 9 місяців тому

    Ah yes, James "the adonis" Polk

  • @LightKing1237
    @LightKing1237 9 місяців тому +1

    If your favorite president was Polk.. you didn't study history.. or understand how bad manifest destiny was and how much of a war monger he was with the Mexican war.
    Do more research

  • @proxev34
    @proxev34 3 роки тому +1

    Thank you America, for Choosing me To Be the 11th US President But Unfortanetly i want to be only 1 term president, cuz i have Cholera i think im already old america.

  • @superbowserjunioraxel
    @superbowserjunioraxel 2 роки тому

    Not 60 sec but 88

  • @redjirachi1
    @redjirachi1 6 років тому +1

    Any Mexicans here who like Polk?

  • @hilwaamanamankiyar-pp5bf
    @hilwaamanamankiyar-pp5bf 2 місяці тому

    00PBS60

  • @sambradley2975
    @sambradley2975 5 років тому +5

    Hardest working President this country ever had.

  • @harrisontaylor3751
    @harrisontaylor3751 2 роки тому

    There was actually more slave holders in the north then the south.

  • @whatsep12
    @whatsep12 2 роки тому

    101 comments

  • @arceisra9267
    @arceisra9267 5 років тому +7

    Hahaha it’s funny that amaericans invade mexico, but now mexico invade america

    • @emmanuelake421
      @emmanuelake421 4 роки тому +1

      Texas was a Republic that would always end up annexing the USA, where on earth did they get that Texas reached the Rio Grande? Texas always their limits was the Nuts River, they had everything planned

    • @D3KA1236
      @D3KA1236 Рік тому

      @arceisra9267hahahaha you're wrong
      Either you're an American or you didn't pay attention to your history classes at school.
      Mexico did not send the USA, Mexico was under the mandate of President Santa Ana, who had an ambition to have all of Mexico controlled. He was a dictator so to speak. When Polk was elected president, he promised your country more territory unless it had 2 coasts and he achievement invading the capital of mexico the city of mexico where they raised your flag but it was removed when zachary taylor and jose joaquin de herrera signed the annexation of california, new mexico to the usa so polk promised his promise to the american people

    • @jamesflynn8443
      @jamesflynn8443 Рік тому

      When Texas was Mexico the Mexican government outlawed slavery. Illegal aliens poured across the borders from the US and its territories against Mexican law. Eventually the illegals (supporters of slavery, I might add) fought and broke away forming the Republic of Texas but the votes were stacked with the illegal immigrants who poured into Mexico's territory and forced the issue and legalized slavery in the Republic. Minus slavery as an issue it was kind of like what illegal aliens from the continental US did to Hawaii. Overwhelm the legal population and then outvote them.
      Polk just took land in the name of God's gift of manifest destiny. In many cases it was a shameful action which provoked or stoked historical problems in order to take land. Of course men like Lincoln were embarrassed by Polk and his actions. My history professor used to say that there was a reason why the full history of Polk's presidency is even now swept under the rug unless you really study about him. People would rather forget about what he did. It would be called imperialism if it happened today.

  • @realkingoftroy
    @realkingoftroy 4 роки тому

    #presidentsascutebabies

  • @annguyendoan7189
    @annguyendoan7189 Рік тому

    Từ trường ( > × < )

  • @roverplush2.0
    @roverplush2.0 6 місяців тому

    Low D tier tbh

  • @I_only_think_of_me
    @I_only_think_of_me 2 роки тому

    Puke!!!

  • @erinthompson2238
    @erinthompson2238 3 роки тому

    pooooooooooooooop

  • @drewtate5409
    @drewtate5409 Рік тому

    Stealing land yeah hail the US. 😂