MANIFEST DESTINY 1806 1855
MANIFEST DESTINY
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Both the United States and Britain claimed rights to the territory.
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There was an intense debate over the legality of slavery in the new territory.
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There was turmoil within the Congress about how much new territory should be added the United States.
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Native American tribes refused to allow the American military to establish protective forts in the new territory.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Oregon boundary dispute or the Oregon Question was a 19th-century territorial dispute over the political division of the Pacific Northwest of North America between several nations that had competing territorial and commercial aspirations in the region.
Detailed explanation-2: -The United States and Great Britain signed the Treaty of Oregon on June 15, 1846, ending 28 years of joint occupancy of the Pacific Northwest. The treaty established the 49th parallel as the border between the two countries.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1819, under terms of the Transcontinental Treaty, Spain ceded its claims to the territory to the United States. Shortly thereafter the United States contested a unilateral Russian move to grant its citizens a fishing, whaling, and commercial monopoly from the Bering Straits to the 51st parallel.
Detailed explanation-4: -The struggle for the remaining territory between the latitudes of 42° and 54°40′ North, which the United States called the Oregon Country, fell between the United States and the British Empire.