12-01 OREGON COUNTRY QUESTIONS.docx
Name: _________________________
Period:_______
OREGON COUNTRY QUESTIONS
Date: ____________
Manifest =
Destiny =
MANIFEST
DESTINY
Manifest Destiny =
John O'Sullivan (a newspaper columnist, 1845):
"And that claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to
possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us for the
development of the great experiment of liberty and federated self-government
entrusted to us."
Which countries claimed
Oregon Country?
What happened?
After the Adams-Onis
Treaty, which countries still
claimed it?
What is joint occupation?
What does “Fifty-Four Forty
or Fight” mean?
What was “Oregon Fever”?
Who were the mountain men?
What was the Oregon Trail?