Examples of Oregon Territory in the following topics:
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- Throughout the nineteenth century, Americans continually moved further west into new territory.
- In the 1830s, the federal government forcibly deported the southeastern tribes to the Indian territory (now Oklahoma) via the "Trail of Tears. "
- After the demise of the fur trade, they established trading posts throughout the west, continued trade with the Indians, and served as guides and hunters for the western migration of settlers to Utah, Oregon, and California.
- Americans asserted a right to colonize vast expanses of North America beyond their country's borders, especially into Oregon, California, and Texas.
- Major events in the western movement of the U.S. population were the Homestead Act, a law by which, for a nominal price, a settler was given title to 160 acres of land to farm; the opening of the Oregon Territory to settlement; and the Texas Revolution.
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- Polk heavily pressured Britain to resolve the Oregon boundary dispute.
- Polk wanted territory, not war, so he compromised with the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Aberdeen.
- The Oregon Treaty of 1846 divided the Oregon Country along the 49th parallel, as in the original US proposal.
- Although there were many who still clamored for the entire territory, the Senate approved the treaty.
- The portion of Oregon territory the United States acquired later formed the states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, and parts of Montana and Wyoming.
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- National politics of the nineteenth century were divided on whether the new territories should become slave states or free states.
- Americans asserted the right to colonize vast expanses of North America beyond their country's borders, especially into Oregon, California, and Texas.
- The Oregon Territory had been jointly administered by the US and Great Britain since 1819, but the two nations fell into disputes over the territory.
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- -British boundary in Oregon.However, rather than go to war with both Mexico and Britain, Polk opted for a diplomatic compromise to divide the Oregon territory at the 49th parallel.The compromise was made official by the Oregon Treaty in 1846.This allowed Polk to concentrate on the conflict with Mexico and gave the U.S. present-day Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Wyoming.However, the Oregon Treaty also angered war-hungry northern Democrats who criticized Polk for prioritizing southern expansion over northern expansion.
- However, the Mexican War was the source of much political conflict in the 1840s and compounded the sectional divides that already split national political coalitions.Most Whigs in the North and South opposed the war, while most Democrats supported it.In particular, Southern Democrats who were animated by the belief in Manifest Destiny enthusiastically supported the war in hope of adding slave-owning territory to the South (and thereby maintaining a political-balance of power with the faster-growing North).For most Whigs, the Mexican War represented little more than a weak justification by southern politicians for the aggressive expansion of slavery.However, Polk and southern Democrats continued to justify the war using arguments of Manifest Destiny and claiming that territory ceded from Mexico would repay the United States for several hefty loans given to the Mexican government during its war of independence.
- Mexico's cession of Alta California and Nuevo México and its recognition of U.S. sovereignty over all of Texas north of the Rio Grande formalized the addition of 1.2 million square miles of territory to the United States, with a final territorial adjustment between Mexico and the U.S. made with the Gadsden Purchase in 1853.
- The war also inflamed the slavery issue and sectional splits in the United States.The new territories in the west (particularly California) meant that the westward expansion of slavery became an increasingly central and heated theme in national debates preceding the American Civil War.Furthermore, in extending the nation farther toward the Pacific Ocean, the Mexican–American War contributed to the massive migrations of Americans to the West, which culminated in transcontinental railroads and the Indian wars later in the same century.
- Mexican territorial claims relinquished in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, depicted in white.
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- President James Madison declared West Florida a U.S. possession in 1810, while the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819 legitimized Spain's cession of East Florida and the surrender of any claims to the Oregon Country.
- This territory was intended for a southern transcontinental railroad.
- Oregon Country, which broadly covered the area west of the Rockies to the Pacific, was jointly controlled by the United States and Britain following the Anglo-American Convention of 1818--until June 1846, when the Oregon Treaty divided the territory at the 49th parallel.
- Oregon Country was then later divided into U.S. territories and states.
- Name several key territorial acquisitions in the early history of the American republic
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- Before the Civil War, the western United States had been penetrated by U.S. forces and settlers via the Santa Fe Trail and the Oregon Trail, and as a result of the Mormon emigration to Utah and the settlement of California and Oregon.
- They were replaced by the volunteer infantry and cavalry raised by the states of California and Oregon, by the western territorial governments, or by the local militias.
- The treaty also provided unceded territory for Cheyenne and Lakota hunting grounds.
- The growing number of miners and settlers encroaching on the Dakota Territory, however, rapidly nullified the protections.
- Grant to honor existing treaties and stem the flow of miners into American Indian territories.
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- The Oregon Trail was a 2,000-mile, historic east-west wagon route and emigrant trail that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon and locations in between.
- The western half of the trail spanned most of then future states of Idaho and Oregon.
- There were various offshoots in Missouri, Iowa, and the Nebraska Territory; the routes converged along the lower Platte River Valley near Fort Kearny, Nebraska Territory and led to rich farmlands west of the Rocky Mountains.
- The path of the Oregon Trail, spanning the present-day states of Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, and Oregon.
- So many wagons traveled the Oregon Trail that ruts are still visible along some sections.
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- After overseeing the final details regarding the annexation of Texas from Mexico, Polk negotiated a peaceful settlement with Britain regarding ownership of the Oregon Country, which delivered to the United States what are now Washington and Oregon.
- After U.S. victory, the Mexican Cession added nearly half of Mexico’s territory to the United States, including New Mexico and California, and established the U.S.
- The California Gold Rush of 1849 rapidly expanded the population of the new territory, while also prompting concerns over immigration, especially from China.
- Efforts to seize western territories from native peoples and expand the republic by warring with Mexico succeeded beyond expectations; few nations had ever expanded so quickly.
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- After the purchase of the Louisiana Territory, Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark to lead an expedition called the "Corps of Discovery."
- Jefferson was highly interested in surveying the flora, fauna, geology, and ethnography of the vast territory west of the Mississippi River.
- After spending eighteen long months on the trail and nearly starving to death in the Bitterroot Mountains of Montana, the Corps of Discovery finally reached the Pacific Ocean in 1805 and spent the winter of 1805–1806 in Oregon.
- Upon their return, Meriwether Lewis was named governor of the Louisiana Territory.
- The men traveled across the North American continent and established relationships with many American Indian tribes, paving the way for fur traders and the establishment of trading posts, which later solidified U.S. claims to Oregon.
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- The term described the very popular idea of the special role of the United States in overtaking the continent—the divine right and duty of white Americans to seize and settle the continent's western territory, thus spreading Protestant, democratic values.
- Polk, a slaveholder from Tennessee, because he vowed to annex Texas as a new slave state, and to take Oregon.
- O'Sullivan was an influential columnist as a young man, but is now generally remembered only for his use of the phrase "manifest destiny" to advocate the annexation of Texas and Oregon.