Many people urged America to fight the British to hold the northern boundary of Oregon at 54° 40'.
American settlers began to settle in the area threatening British hold on the territory.
Secretary of State James Buchanan negotiated the treaty that set the boundary of the Oregon territory.
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In the mid-1800s, both the United States and the United Kingdom sought to take control of where is now the Oregon area. Eventually, a compromise was made between the two nations, leading to the Oregon Treaty, which laid out the boundary between the United States and present-day Canada.
His campaign slogan, "54 forty or fight" referred to his goal of settling the boundary dispute with Britain over the Oregon Territory. He may have had a more hidden agenda of adding California to the US and fixing the border of Texas.
The Oregon Treaty set the boundary at the 49th Parallel.
They are located in western North America, stretching from British Columbia to Washington, Oregon, and Northern California
Forty-ninth Parallel
Along the line of the 49th parallel.
The U.S. President who based his campaign slogan on the Oregon boundary dispute with Britain was James K. Polk. His campaign slogan was "Fifty-four Forty or Fight!", which referred to the latitude line of 54°40' north as the desired northern boundary of the Oregon Territory, extending all the way to the southernmost tip of Alaska.
54'40
The Treaty of 1818 (1818) and the Treaty of Oregon (1846) put the US-Canadian boundary at the 49th parallel
The northern boundary of the Oregon territory was settled by a treaty with Britain while Polk was president. He settled for less that the 54-40 he had campaigned for.
Not exactly. He negotiated a treaty with Britain that established the disputed northern boundary of the Oregon Territory, but the territory already existed.
49 degrees
The conflict of the 1840s likely refers to various events such as the Mexican-American War or the Oregon Boundary Dispute. These conflicts were resolved through treaties and negotiations, such as the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, which ended the Mexican-American War, and the Oregon Treaty of 1846, which settled the boundary between the United States and British North America.
The dispute over the northern boundary of the U.S. claim to the Oregon Territory was was settled in the Treaty of Oregon of 1846, during the presidency of James K. Polk. The treaty established the boundary between British Canada and the U.S. at 49-degrees latitude. -- Contributed by Ray Kovach, Chicago, IL