• The Oregon Lyceum or Pioneer Lyceum and Literary Club was founded in Oregon City, Oregon Country around 1840. The forum was a prominent fixture for the...
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    The Oregon Trail was a 2,170-mile (3,490 km) east–west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail in the United States that connected the Missouri River...
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    The Oregon Treaty is a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United States that was signed on June 15, 1846, in Washington, D.C. The treaty brought...
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    Garrison, all spoke at lyceums in the late 19th century. Lyceum Lyceum (Alexandria, Virginia) The Lyceum (Mississippi) Oregon Lyceum Chautauqua Lecture circuit...
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  • The Territory of Oregon was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 14, 1848, until February 14, 1859, when the...
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    Oregon Country was a large region of the Pacific Northwest of North America that was subject to a long dispute between the United Kingdom and the United...
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  • refer to: Lyceum (classical), a gymnasium in Athens, location of Aristotle's peripatetic school Oregon Lyceum, 1840s Pioneer political forum Lyceum movement...
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    The Oregon boundary dispute or the Oregon Question was a 19th-century territorial dispute over the political division of the Pacific Northwest of North...
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    context of the 1920s Chautauqua movement Lecture circuit Lyceum Lyceum Movement Oregon Lyceum TED Talks Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the Twentieth...
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    Oregon City is the county seat of Clackamas County, Oregon, United States, located on the Willamette River near the southern limits of the Portland metropolitan...
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    nation that would be free of the United States during debates at the Oregon Lyceum. This view won support at first and a resolution was adopted. When the...
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    The Provisional Government of Oregon was a popularly elected settler government created in the Oregon Country, in the Pacific Northwest region of North...
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  • around the mission. Over the next few years the Provisional Government of Oregon and later the United States Army battled the Native Americans east of the...
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    Treaty of 1818 (category Pre-statehood history of Oregon)
    nations. The treaty allowed for joint occupation and settlement of the Oregon Country, known to the British and in Canadian history as the Columbia District...
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    Donation Land Claim Act (category Oregon Trail)
    Congress in late 1850, intended to promote homestead settlements in the Oregon Territory. It followed the Distribution-Preemption Act 1841. The law, a...
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    Congress to take action declaring the territorial status of the Oregon Country. The Oregon Territory was established on August 14, 1848, to protect the white...
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    Fort Vancouver (category Oregon Country)
    establishment of Fort Vancouver. Using the HBC position that any settlement of the Oregon boundary dispute would confirm the border placement along the Columbia;...
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    future of the Oregon Country. He advocated an independent nation that would be free of the United States during debates at the Oregon Lyceum in 1842 through...
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    Elbridge Trask (category People from Tillamook County, Oregon)
    1815 – June 23, 1863) was an American fur trapper and mountain man in the Oregon Country. Immortalized by a series of modern historical novels by Don Berry...
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    George Abernethy (category Politicians from Oregon City, Oregon)
    British Hudson's Bay Company. Abernethy was also a member of the Oregon Lyceum in Oregon City. In 1842 he introduced a resolution there to hold off forming...
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    Rogue River Wars (category Wars involving the indigenous peoples of North America in Oregon)
    River Indians, in the Rogue River Valley area of what today is southern Oregon. The conflict designation usually includes only the hostilities that took...
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    served as the executive Branch of the Provisional Government of Oregon in the disputed Oregon Country. This arrangement was announced on July 5, 1843, after...
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  • The Oregon Rangers were two 19th century settler militia in the Willamette Valley of the contested Oregon Country. The first was established in response...
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    in the British and the Americans' resolving their disputed claims to the Oregon Country.[citation needed] The Fort Astoria Site was added to the list of...
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    Marcus Whitman (category Physicians from Oregon)
    physician and missionary. He is most well-known for leading settlers across the Oregon Trail, unsuccessfully attempting to Christianize the Cayuse Indians, and...
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    Albina is a historical American city that was consolidated into Portland, Oregon in 1891. The land the City of Albina would later be built on was claimed...
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  • The Oregon missionaries were pioneers who settled in the Oregon Country of North America starting in the 1830s dedicated to bringing Christianity to local...
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    Joseph Meek (category Members of the Provisional Government of Oregon)
    mountain man, law enforcement official, and politician in the Oregon Country and later Oregon Territory of the United States. A trapper involved in the fur...
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    Ezra Meeker (category People from Oregon Territory)
    (December 29, 1830 – December 3, 1928) was an American pioneer who traveled the Oregon Trail by ox-drawn wagon as a young man, migrating from Iowa to the Pacific...
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    The Oregon Institute was an American school located in the Willamette Valley of the Oregon Country during the 19th century. Begun in 1842, it was the first...
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