Title: Oregon Territory
Name: ___________________
Class: Social Studies 6
Date: March 16, 2011
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QUESTIONS/SUMMARIES
Manifest Destiny
Oregon Territory
Boundary Dispute
Effects
Summary/Reflection:
NOTES:
 Journalist John L. O'Sullivan advocated United
States expansion to the Pacific Ocean—"from
sea to shining sea”

name applied both to the unorganized Oregon
Country claimed by both the United States and
Britain

The Oregon Trail was one of the main overland
migration routes leading from locations on the
Missouri River to the Oregon Territory

arose as a result of competing British and
American claims

expansionists and democrats urged President
James K. Polk to annex the entire Oregon
Country north to the parallel 54°40′

gave rise to slogans like "Fifty-four Forty or
Fight!" and the catchphrase "Manifest
Destiny"

territory acquired through a treaty with Great
Britain

expansionist agenda of Polk and the
Democratic Party created the possibility of two
different, simultaneous wars, because relations
between the United States and Mexico were
deteriorating following the annexation of Texas