The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . ent back by the missionaries wereso promising that many people in search of good farms were per-suaded to settle in the Oregon country. Indeed, so many camethat the English fur traderswere alarmed, and they inturn arranged to have anEnglish colony go to the ter-ritory. Whitman saw thatnothing but prompt actionwould save the territory tothe Americans, and thereforecrossed the continent in mid-winter in order to interestthe leaders at convinced the lead-ing congressmen that theOregon country was worththe str
The making of the American nation; a history for elementary schools . ent back by the missionaries wereso promising that many people in search of good farms were per-suaded to settle in the Oregon country. Indeed, so many camethat the English fur traderswere alarmed, and they inturn arranged to have anEnglish colony go to the ter-ritory. Whitman saw thatnothing but prompt actionwould save the territory tothe Americans, and thereforecrossed the continent in mid-winter in order to interestthe leaders at convinced the lead-ing congressmen that theOregon country was worththe struggle to hold it. Hecreated so much public in- ^^^ ^^^^^^ Country. terest in the matter that in the next few years the populationof the region increased to more than ten thousand. As a result, in 1846, the United States and Great Britain madea new treaty in regard to the boundary of United States had always claimed the region as establishedfar as the Alaska line, latitude 54° 40 north, but theEnglish had disputed the claim and asserted that the Columbia. 268 TUE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN NATION River was the right boundary. All north of the river was claimedas British possessions. In the presidential campaign of 184-4 theOregon dispute had been a political issue, and the Democrats hadused the rallying cries of, Fifty-four forty or fight, and Thewhole of Oregon or none, with or without war with the treaty made in Washington in June, 1846, the Oregonboundary was fixed at the forty-ninth parallel. That part ofthe region which passed to England was named British was made a territory in 1848; out of it were subsequentlycreated the states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. SUMMARY During Monroes administration the United States bought Floridafrom Spain, in 1819, for $5,000,000. The northern boundary of the Lousiana Purchase was determined by atreaty with Great Britain, from the Lake of the AVoods west to the RockyMountains, and the southern boundary
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