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Excerpt from American Diplomacy Under Tyler and Polk The selection of the administrations of Tyler and Polk for treatment in a course of lectures upon American diplomatic history may seem somewhat arbitrary. Upon closer view, however, one sees that there is so much of continuity in the foreign relations of the United States during the terms of these two Presidents, both of whom have been called "accidental," that the years 1841 to 1849 may fairly be said to constitute an epoch quite distinct from the Jacksonian era, which preceded them, and the ante-bellum period, proper, which followed. Yet it would be misleading to state that this epoch presented for solution problems altogether novel. The problems for the most part were as old as the nation. It was the method of their solution which was new. The questions which dominated the foreign policy of Tyler's and Polk's time were mainly those of boundary, dating from the first treaty of peace with England. The administrations of these two Presidents accomplished the settlement of three boundary questions: the northeastern and northwestern through negotiation, the southwestern by conquest. These chapters in the history of American diplomacy deal principally with the questions of boundary. To have considered all of the diplomatic events during the years 1841 to 1849 would have exceeded the limits of the present volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.