Oregon boundary dispute
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 Senator Lewis Cass was a leading advocate of 54°40′, but backed away from the claim when it became untenable. Like James Buchanan, Cass had presidential ambitions and did not want to alienate Americans on either side of the Oregon question. |
The Oregon boundary dispute, or the Oregon Question, arose as a result of competing British and American claims to the Pacific Northwest of North America in the first half of the 19th century. Both the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (USA) had territorial and commercial aspirations in the region as well as residual claims from treaties with Russia and Spain. The British knew the region as the Columbia District, a fur-trading division of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), while Americans referred to it as the Oregon Country. The broadest definition of the disputed region was defined by the following: west of the Continental Divide of the Americas, north of the 42nd parallel north (the northern border of New Spain and after 1821 of Mexico), and south of the parallel 54°40′ north (the southern border of Russian America after 1825).
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| 1844 Democratic platform 1844 Democratic platform www.presidency.ucsb.edu/showplatforms.php?platindex=D1844 - Web |
| Polk's March 1845 inaugural address Polk's March 1845 inaugural address www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=25814 - Web |
| Polk's December 1845 message to Congress Polk's December 1845 message to Congress www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29486 - Web |
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| "Polk's Dream" "Polk's Dream" loc.harpweek.com/.../IndexDisplayCartoonMedium.asp?SourceIndex=Topics&IndexText=Oregon&UniqueID=9&Year=1846 - Web |
| "Present Presidential Position" "Present Presidential Position" loc.harpweek.com/.../IndexDisplayCartoonMedium.asp?SourceIndex=Topics&IndexText=Oregon&UniqueID=10&Year=1846 - Web |
| "Ultimatum on the Oregon Question" "Ultimatum on the Oregon Question" loc.harpweek.com/.../DisplayCartoonMedium.asp?MaxID=77&UniqueID=13&Year=1846&YearMark=1843 - Web |
| "War! or No War!" "War! or No War!" loc.harpweek.com/.../IndexDisplayCartoonMedium.asp?SourceIndex=Topics&IndexText=Oregon&UniqueID=15&Year=1846 - Web |
| Fifty-Four Forty or Fight Fifty-Four Forty or Fight geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa031600a.htm - Web |
| Another reference work Another reference work www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9375556 - Web |
| 54-40 or Fight 54-40 or Fight earlywomenmasters.net/quilts/f/54_40/index.html - Web |
