Ch 11. 1 The Oregon Country

Henry Clay lost the 1844 Presidential election to ______

• James K Polk

• William Henry Harrison

• John Q. Adams

• Martin Van Buren

This person was a Secretary of State and later US President who negotiatd a treaty with Spain over the Oregon Country

• James K Polk

• William Henry Harrison

• John Q. Adams

• Martin Van Buren

_____ was an American fur merchant and established the American Fur Company

• John Jacob Astor

• Sam Houston

• Marcus Whitman

• Martin Van Buren

South of the Oregon Country was ____

• California

• Washington

• Idaho

• Colorado

• Montana

_______ is the philosophy meaning that the U.S. was meant to extend its boundaries all the way to the Pacific

• Manifest Destiny

• Rendezvous Philosophy

• Emigrant Theory

• Joint Occupation

• Providential Expansion

The ________ expedition was one of the reason's the U.S. claimed the Oregon Country

• Lewis and Clark

• Pike

• Oregon Trail

• Columbus

• Magellan

(a)   : huge area north of California that was between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains

(a)   : This country gave up its claim to the land south of Alaska in 1824

(a)   : Tough, independent men that spent most of their time in the Rocky Mountains

(a)   : Many of the first people from the US to live in Oregon were traders of this, like that from beavers