Oregon Country

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    Manifest Destiny

  • John Astor created the American Fur Company

  • Britain and the U.S. create a joint occupation for Oregon

  • Adams-Onis Treaty

    Adams-Onis Treaty was signed

  • Russia gives up claim to the land south of Alaska

  • John Quincy Adams becomes president

  • Americans start traveling to the Oregon Country

  • Marcus Whitman builds mission in Oregon

  • "Oregon fever" sweeps through Mississippi valley

  • U.S. and Britain set the Oregon Boundary at 49*N

  • The Cayuse attack Dr.Macus's mission and killed him, his wife, and 11 others