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What did the Oregon country include |
Lay between pacific and Rocky Mountains north of California (Includes Oregon, Washington, Idaho, half of British Columbia, parts of Montana and Wyoming) |
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What four nations tried to claim the Oregon country and why did they claim it was theirs |
United States ( discovery of Columbia River and Lewis and Clark expedition) Britain ( explorations of Columbia River) Spain (Controlled California) Russia (Settlements that stretched into Oregon) |
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Why did Americans want control of the Oregon country? Who plays a key role in promoting this goal? |
To gain access to Pacific Ocean
John Quincy Adams |
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What did Spain agree to do in the Adams/Onis treaty that benefitted the U.S. And their claim to Oregon ? (1819) |
Spain agreed to set their territory at California's northern border and gave up claims to Oregon |
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When did Russia give up its claim to Oregon country ? What lands did they specifically give up claim to? |
1824 Lands south of Alaska |
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What agreement had Adams worked out with Britain in 1818 for control of the area? |
Agreed to joint occupation |
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What is joint occupation |
The possession and settling of an area shared by two or more countries |
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How were merchants first supplied with beaver furs? How did this change |
Native Americas supplied them
Americans joined the trade |
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What kind of people were the first Americans to reach Oregon country? |
They were fur traders |
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What did American men adopt to survive? What did they do about the mountains? |
Adopted Native American ways And married Native American wives
form routes throughout mountains |
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When the Beavers became scarce in the east and west, what did the mountain men do? |
Acted as guides to lead parties of settlers now coming west |
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Among the first settlers of the Oregon country were missionaries who spread Christianity to the natives. Who was Dr Marcus Whitman and what did he do ? |
Doctor who with his wife built a mission among the cayuse people , spreading Christianity |
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What did settlers accidentally bring to the settlement? What happened as a result |
Brought measles to the mission, killing many of the native children |
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Who Did the cayuse blame for the death of their children? What did they do as a result |
The Whitman's
Attacked and killed Whitman's |
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When did Oregon fever sweep through the Mississippi valley? Why? |
Early 1840s
Depression in 1837. Wanted to start over out west |
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What were these pioneers called? What were the wagons called? How long was the journey out west |
Emigrants Prairie shooners 2000 mile journey |
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What are emigrants |
People who leave one place to another in the same country |
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Where had most American pioneers headed to settle? |
willamette valley south of Columbia River |
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The question of ownership of the Oregon country arose again when? |
American pioneers increased British did not |
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What was john Sullivan's idea of a national mission of the U.S.? |
Declared it was Americas manifest destiny to over spread and posses the whole of the continent which providence has given us |
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What is manifest destiny |
The idea popular in the 1800s that the country must expand ifs boundaries to the Pacific |
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The idea that the U.S. Should have sole ownership was a significant issue in 1844 election Who was the democrats nomination for president and why? |
James k Polk Because he supported American claims for sole ownership of Oregon |
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What slogan did the democrats campaign and what did it mean ? |
Fifty-four Forty or Fight
Referred to the line of latitude that democrats believed should be the nations northern border in Oregon |
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Who was the Whig opponent What did in the have a strong position on |
Henry Clay On the Oregon issue |
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Who won the 1844 election and why |
Polk Won because the antislavery liberty party took votes from clay |
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What did Britain and the U.S. Compromise and when |
June 1846 Set boundary between the American and British portions of Oregon at 49•N |
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How did mountain men make a living |
Made living by trapping beaver Some sold to highest bidder Some sold to fur companies |
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What did the Oregon country include |
(Includes Oregon, Washington, Idaho, half of British Columbia, parts of Montana and Wyoming) |
