--- title: "Instead of dividing the Oregon Country with Great Britain, do you think the United States should have followed President James K. Polk's campaign slogan \"54-40 or Fight!\"?" description: "Instead of dividing the Oregon Country with Great Britain, do you think the United States should have followed President James K. Polk's campaign slogan \"54-40 or Fight!\"?" author: "agustina johnson" published: 2018-04-03 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/40622/instead-of-dividing-the-oregon-country-with-great-britain-do-you-think-the-united-states-should-have-followed-president-james-k-polk-s-campaign-slogan-54-40-or-fight category: "usa history" tags: ["usa history", "the slave trade", "the south"] reading_time: 1 minute --- # Instead of dividing the Oregon Country with Great Britain, do you think the United States should have followed President James K. Polk's campaign slogan "54-40 or Fight!"? [Instead of](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/330/triggers-in-sql-server) dividing the Oregon [Country](https://www.mindstick.com/news/2337/vikram-s-the-country-s-first-privately-developed-rocket-will-launch-on-november-15) with Great Britain, do you think the [United States](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41822/what-was-the-costliest-battle-in-the-history-of-the-united-states-marines-corps) should have followed [President James](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/43472/when-it-came-to-the-issue-of-the-extension-of-slavery-what-did-president-james-k-polk-favor) K. Polk's [campaign slogan](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41799/which-presidential-candidate-used-the-campaign-slogan-back-to-normalcy-because-americans-were-eager-for-stability-and-order) "54-40 or Fight!"? --- Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/40622/instead-of-dividing-the-oregon-country-with-great-britain-do-you-think-the-united-states-should-have-followed-president-james-k-polk-s-campaign-slogan-54-40-or-fight Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.