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Chapter 12 Section 1
  • The Oregon Country

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What 4 countries claimed land within the Oregon
Country?
  • Based on Robert Grays discovery of the Columbia
    River and Lewis/Clark
  • Based on exploration of the Columbia River
  • Explored Pacific coast, controlled California to
    the south
  • Settlements from Alaska to Oregon

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What happened to the claims?
  • Adams/Onis Treaty (1819)
  • Spain agreed to set border where CAs north is
    now, gave up claims to Oregon
  • _____________________________________
  • (1824) Russia surrenders claims south of
  • Alaska
  • Joint occupation people from both the US and GB
    could settle Oregon
  • Adams proposed 49 latitude, GB refused

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John Jacob Astor
  • Created the American Fur Trading Company
  • Traded with East Coast, Pacific Northwest, China

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Mountain Men
  • Made living trapping animals
  • Some married Native Americans
  • Some worked for trading companies
  • Set traps in spring/early summer
  • Annual rendezvous
  • Best time of year, meet and trade hairy bank
    notes for traps, guns coffee, other goods

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South Pass
  • Founded by Jedediah Smith and Robert Stuart
  • Break in the Rocky Mountains
  • Main route to Oregon

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The Whitman Mission
  • Missionaries to bring Christianity to the Native
    Americans
  • Whitmans build missionary near Cayuse people
  • Measles kill many Native children
  • Cayuse attack mission

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Oregon trail
  • 1840s Oregon Fever
  • Great Migration emigrants pioneers who made
    the trip to Oregon
  • 2,000 mile journey packed their prairie
    schooners
  • Gathered in Independence (Missouri) and follow
    Oregon trail into Oregon Country

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Manifest DestinyDefined
  • Created by newspaper editor John OSullivan
  • US had inspired mission to bring its neighbors
    within the American democratic experiment
  • Assumption of cultural and racial superiority of
    Americans

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American Progress by John Gast, 1872
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54 40 or Fight
  • US should have sole ownership of Oregon
  • 1844 presidential election, Oregon issue
  • James K. Polk (D) vs Henry Clay (Whig)
  • Polk Americans should have sole ownership
  • Clay no strong position

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Settlement
  • GB did not accept 54 40 border
  • Compromise 49 degrees north latitude
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