Transcript Oregon

Oregon Territory
(1846)
Oregon Fever
• America and Britain claimed/agreement
with Britain - both occupy land
• America’s claim – Lewis and Clark journey
• Why? Fertile soil, forests, sunny weather,
no known diseases
• Traveled by Oregon Trail
All of Oregon or Half?
• Polk promised to annex all
of Oregon country.
– 54,40 or FIGHT!
• Did not happen. Treaty
signed with Britain,
divided Oregon in half
(now divides U.S. and
Canada)
• No blood was spilled.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3dbuV4T
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Alaska (1867)
• Purchased from Russia by Sec. of State
Seward for $7.2M (“Seward’s Folly”)
• Russia feared losing it to Britain, sold to
U.S.