American Civil War · TURNING POINT ·
Oregon Treaty (1846)
On the American Civil War map as “The Oregon Treaty”
15 Jun 1846 — Britain and the United States divide the jointly occupied Oregon Country at the 49th parallel, and Fort Vancouver, the Hudson’s Bay Company post, ends up on the American side. Polk compromised in the north in the same weeks he went to war in the south.
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- Mexican–American War (chapter 1 of American Civil War)
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- The American Civil War, 1840–1877
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