Aug 30, 2008

Salem on History | Oregon Settlement

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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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Salem on History | Oregon Settlement

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