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It was important because the Americans that paid for the land with tax money needed to know what they bought with that money. Also having a border that went all the way to the Ocean meant national security. Lewis and Clark helped establish that the United States owned the land since Russia, Spain, Mexico, and England all claimed the area at one time.

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The Oregon Territory was particularly significant for the lucrative fur trade that developed there. The territory had been occupied by both Britain and the United States until the Oregon Treaty in 1846.

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It was important because 500,000 people traveled the Oregon Trail to a new life.

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it showed how pioneers got to oregon to live

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people used the Oregon trail to go west like California to get some gold or land

they also used the Oregon trail for a better fortune and easy travel to the west

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It was the way west for thousands of pioneers.

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Given that the main mode of transportation was oxen and wagon or horse. The trail provided a known way across the vast unknown area west of the Mississippi river.

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because pioneers outlaws and explorers had to Cross the Oregon trail because it was the only feasible path through the Rockey mountains

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