In the 1840s,regional critics of President James K.Polk claimed his policies favored the

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Regional critics of President James K. Polk in the 1840s claimed that his policies favored the South. Polk, a slave-owning southerner himself, was a proponent of territorial expansion, which led to conflicts over whether new territories should be slave or free. His policies also included the annexation of Texas, which was a pro-slavery state, and the Mexican-American War, which many anti-slavery advocates viewed as a means to expand slavery into new territories. As a result, critics in the North accused Polk of being a "slave power" president, but regional critics in the South generally supported his pro-slavery policies.

In the 1840s,regional Critics of President James K