APUSH SGQ UNIT 5

British anti-expansionists ("Little Englanders") were persuaded that the Columbia River was not after all the St. Lawrence of the West and that the turbulent American hordes might one day seize the Oregon Country. Why fight a hazardous war over this distant land on behalf of an unpopular monopoly, the Hudson's Bay Company, which had already "furred out" much of the area anyhow? Early in 1846 the British, hat in hand, came around and themselves proposed the line of 49 degrees. President Polk, irked by the previous rebuff, threw the decision squarely into the lap of the Senate. The senators speedily accepted the offer and approved the subsequent treaty, despite a few diehard shouts of "Fifty-four forty forever

" and "Every foot or not an inch!" The fact that the United States was then a month deep in a war with Mexico doubtless influenced the Senate's final vote.

SH1: Why was the victory of "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" only temporary and what statesmen must have been very sad?

The victory of "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too" was only temporary because four weeks into office Harrison contracted pneumonia and died. The statesmen who must have been very sad were Daniel Webster and Henry Clay.

The Whig party supported infrastructure, tariffs and a national bank. In other words, what program did they support that the Democrats did not?

They were Nationalists and supported internal improvements.