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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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    The treaty brought an end to the Oregon boundary dispute by settling competing American and British claims to the Oregon Country; the area had been jointly...
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    The Alaska boundary dispute was a territorial dispute between the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which then controlled...
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    casualties on either side. The Oregon Treaty of June 15, 1846, resolved the Oregon boundary dispute by dividing the Oregon Country/Columbia District between...
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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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    as a means to extend the Slave Power and helped to settle the Oregon boundary dispute with Britain. Calhoun returned to the Senate, where he opposed...
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  • Government of Oregon. In 1846, the Oregon boundary dispute between the U.S. and Britain was settled with the signing of the Oregon Treaty. The United States federal...
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    a year. The concept was used by Democrats to justify the 1846 Oregon boundary dispute and the 1845 annexation of Texas as a slave state, culminating...
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  • that became part of New Brunswick in 1842. Oregon boundary dispute (Columbia District and New Caledonia/Oregon Country) Pig War (Colony of Vancouver Island/Washington...
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    of free land and HBC-free government. In 1846, the Oregon Treaty ending the Oregon boundary dispute was signed with Britain. The British lost much of the...
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  • of the Oregon Territory should be 54°40′, later reflected in the 1846 slogan "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!" However, the Oregon boundary dispute was settled...
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    for a third time in 75 years (see Oregon boundary dispute), but the border was defined peacefully in 1846 by the Oregon Treaty. The border between the United...
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    intent upon controlling a contested U.S.-Canada border area in the Oregon boundary dispute. 54-40 has had a successful career, with four of their albums being...
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  • Russo-American Treaty of 1824 (category Oregon Country)
    representing the Russian Empire. List of treaties Oregon boundary dispute Alaska Boundary Dispute Russian colonization of the Americas Maritime Fur Trade...
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    Superior by 1855. The signing of the Oregon Treaty by Britain and the United States in 1846 ended the Oregon boundary dispute, extending the border westward...
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    settled the dispute. The Webster–Ashburton Treaty of 1842 established the final boundary between the countries, giving most of the disputed area to Maine...
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    Boundary Bay. Point Roberts was created when the United Kingdom and the United States settled the Pacific Northwest American-Canadian border dispute in...
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    Government, but by December the most expansive American claim in the Oregon boundary dispute of Parallel 54°40′ north was adopted. On December 22, 1845 districts...
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    treaty resolved standing boundary issues between the two nations. The treaty allowed for joint occupation and settlement of the Oregon Country, known to the...
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    decade. On its northern border, the United States settled the Oregon boundary dispute with the United Kingdom in 1846, thereby solving a domestic political...
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    Maine–New Brunswick boundary dispute was resolved through the Webster–Ashburton Treaty in 1842, the Oregon boundary dispute through the Oregon Treaty of 1846...
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  • Tennessee State Capitol Presidency Inauguration of James K. Polk Oregon boundary dispute Oregon Treaty Texas annexation Mexican–American War Thornton Affair...
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    States; as resolution to the Oregon boundary dispute by the Oregon Treaty. Thousands passed through the Rocky Mountains on the Oregon Trail beginning in the...
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    Strait of Juan de Fuca (category Canada–United States border disputes)
    areas disputed by the United States and Canada Marilyn Bell Oregon boundary dispute Race Rocks Marine Protected Area Pig War (San Juan Islands Dispute) Swinomish...
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    Mountains to the east. Though no official boundary exists, the most common conception includes the U.S. states of Oregon, Washington, northern Idaho, and the...
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  • opposition to the idea within the U.S. Congress on various internal political disputes. Before US President James K. Polk took office in 1845, the US Congress...
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    "Algeria–Libya Land Boundary". Sovereign Limits. Retrieved 29 March 2023. International Court of Justice (2012). "Territorial and maritime dispute (Nicaragua vs...
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  • Fifty-Four Forty or Fight – slogan used during the 19th-century Oregon boundary dispute I like Ike – slogan for the Draft Eisenhower movement, the only...
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    America in the 19th century. Much of its territory overlapped with the disputed Oregon Country. It was explored by the North West Company between 1793 and...
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    [Rio Grande]. But now, after reiterated menaces, Mexico has passed the boundary of the United States, has invaded our territory and shed American blood...
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