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The Oregon Country was a predominantly American term referring to a disputed ownership region of the Pacific Northwest of North America. The region was occupied by British and French Canadian fur traders from before 1810, and American settlers from the mid-1830s. The Native population eventually shared the same marginalized fate as the rest of the Indian tribes.
settlers went to Oregon country for land to farm and to trade fur.
American settlers began to settle in the area threatening British hold on the territory.
oregonians
the british and American congress worked out a deal/agreement which resulted in the US getting the land
Missionaries
Missionaries
Many Settlers moving to Oregon country and other western areas followed the 2,000 mile long Oregon Trail, which stretched from places such as Independence, Missouri, or Council Bluffs, Iowa, west into Oregon Country
Trappers and missionaries.
groups of settlers who were following the manifest destiny.
In the year of 1840s they traveled to Oregon Country.
mountain men and missionaries