Oregon Settlement
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: North American Series
- Categories: Government and Politics, Diplomacy, International Relations, Foreign Affairs, Land Acquisition and Expansion, Territory Redistribution, Discovery, Exploration
- Subcategories: Frontier, Pioneers, Immigration, Immigrants
- Curriculum: 19th Century European History, British History, American History 1816-1855, Canadian History
- Geographical Location: Oregon
- Date: June 15, 1846
Article abstract: A U.S.-British treaty opens the way to American migration into the Pacific Northwest.
Summary of Event
The struggle for possession of the lush Oregon Country was among the most difficult and danger-fraught episodes in American westward expansion. Four powers—Spain, Russia, Great Britain, and the United States—originally held claims to Oregon. Their claims rested on such diverse supports as papal bulls and imperial ukases, but most strongly upon voyages of discovery and exploration between the 1540’s and the 1790’s. Spanish...
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