History of the United States I / Unit 11 USH1 1540 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Oregon and Fifty-Four Forty
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The idea
Oregon Country ran from forty-two degrees latitude, the present California boundary, north to fifty-four degrees forty minutes.
In practice
An agreement of eighteen eighteen establishing joint British and American ownership of the whole.
Where people slip
The eighteen twenty-seven Treaty of Joint Occupation had opened the territory to settlement by both nations.
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