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The Oregon Country
Chapters 16-17
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Where: Today’s Oregon, Washington, Idaho, parts of Montana and Wyoming. Also part of the Canadian Province of British Colombia
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•4 countries had claims to this area (originally):
- United States- based on Robert Gray’s discovery of the Columbia River and the Lewis and Clarke expedition
- Great Britain- on its claim on British explorations of the Columbia river
- Spain- explored Pacific Coast and controlled California to the South (lost claim in the Adams-Onis Treaty)
- Russia- had settlements that stretched south from Alaska into Oregon (lost claim in the Adams-Onis Treaty)
The British and US had jointed Occupancy of this area
President Adams wanted to divide country at the 49° line- Great Britain refused
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•Many wanted to travel to Oregon land (rumors of fertile land, pretty view, leaving economic troubles)
-to travel they had to take trails- Oregon trail was the best to take their thanks to the South Pass (broad breakthrough in the Rockies) Journey became know as The Great Migration – 2,000 mile journey (emigrants)
- Oregon Trail went through the Great Plains, Platte River and the South Pass of the Rockies- very challenging
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The Oregon Trail
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The Division of Oregon
-Great increase in American population (500-5000)
-Britain's population did not increase (700)
-Manifest Destiny- belief it was United States nation mission to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us (expanding to the West Coast)
Led To:
-“Fifty-four Forty or Fight”- sole ownership of Oregon
-refers to the line of latitude that Democrats believed should be the nation's northern border in Oregon
* Polk’s strong support of this led to his Presidential victory over Henry Clay
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Results: Britain didn’t want that to happen
- 1846 compromised- the boundary between American and British portions was set at 49° latitude
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Mormons
Joe Smith founded this religion in 1830Believed property should be held in common, believed in polygamy (the idea that a man can have more than one wife)Angered a lot of ChristiansMormons were pushed around the United States finally settling around Salt Lake City, Utah (Brigham Young did this)Mormons conflicts with the government kept Utah from becoming a state for a long while (1896)