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1) To provide a place for travelers to resupply and 2) to provide protection to those travelers and people who had settled in the area.

As far as US and Britain over the Oregon Boundary, President Polk wanted the land and figured that Britain was not willing to fight over it. Britain gave the US almost everything it wanted. No troops were needed but both sides did have some ships.

With Mexico, the US sent a full scale invading army and took what it wanted. Later with the Gasden Purchase it took some more but this time it paid for it.

Joint Occupation c;

Lewis & Clark Expedition Contiguity (it bordered the US)
Settlement

The trail followed by Mormon pioneers mostly paralleled the Oregon Trail, at times merged with it, and at a few points diverged completely from it. The reason for following the general course of the Oregon trail was primarily because it had been mapped out by traders and trappers several years prior to their own exodus from Nauvoo, Ill. However, because of the adversarial relationship between the Mormons and many immigrants from both Illinois and Missouri (where an "extermination order" was still in effect at that time), the Mormon immigrants opted to follow a course that also followed the Platte river, but on the opposite side from most Oregon-bound parties.

Smallpox, flu, colds, cholera, diphtheria ,TB, infections of all sorts, whooping cough, some people probably got sick from the small particles of dust they took in every day for months, pneumonia are just a few that I can think of off the top of my head. There were probably others and many were called by other names in that time. For instance, no one knew of cancer.Also scurvy and malaria were 2 other diseases

England and America came to the agreement of a boundry line of 49 degrees
49 Parallel

The purchase of the "Louisiana Territory" from France did nothing to help later settlers to California; California was, at that time, part of Spain. However, Oregon was part of the Louisiana Territory (although the border between what would become Washington State and Canada was not yet fixed.) And much of the path that settlers would take to California and Oregon was through the Louisiana Territory.

Perhaps the biggest point was that the purchase of the Louisiana Territory placed the United States adjacent to the Spanish colonies which later became Mexico. In 1835, the Texan war of independence from Mexico began, culminating in the 1836 defeat of the Mexican forces at the Battle of San Jacinto. (The Battle of the Alamo of a few months earlier was a tactical defeat but a strategic victory, delaying the Mexicans and providing time for Texan troops to be gathered.) The acceptance of the Republic of Texas into the United States provoked the Mexican-American War in 1845. The 1846 Bear Flag Rebellion created the short-lived California Republic, and the US crushed the Mexican forces and annexed California.

The Oregon Trail was a group of white americans of eurpean decent that voluntarly walked the trail.

The Trail Of Tears was a trail foced to be taken by the Native Americans

Both are hard, long and risky trails and they both travel westbund.

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Because the wagons were usually full with people, like women and young children, and they'd rather walk not crowded. Plus if the wagon was too heavy, it could get stuck in mud or holes and the people would have to leave all of their things.

That's why they walked most of the way. Hope my answer was helpful!

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Feudalism came to Europe because after the Roman Empire fell, many smaller empires took over Europe and many didn't get along together. So, people built castles and created the feudal law to protect themselves from invaders, which was the start of the Middle Ages.

Some didn't . Life was very hard. At the start the land was flat and everyone was still fresh, but as the trip went along things got harder. They were going 2400 miles across land that was a combination of prairie , mountains, and deserts. Each had their own problems. They faced awful storms, floods, loosing family members and friends to the various diseases and accidents. Some lost everything in mountain passes or in flooded rivers. Most of the women and children walked the entire way. Today the prairie in some places is still pretty much the way they found it with bugs, heat, and winds blowing all day every day. They were brave stubborn people who put everything on a small wagon, left family, and left on a six month trip to a place they only heard about. The one thing it was NOT was boring.

People thought the east was getting too crowded for there to be enough farm land.

Britian, Russia, Spain and the United States all had competing claims to Oregon.

The final dispute was between the US and Great Britain, which divided the area in 1846.

Four nations claimed Oregon Country at one time: Spain, Russia, Britain, and the United States. Spain dropped out of America with the Florida Treaty of 1819 and Russia dropped out with the treaties of 1824 and 1825. Britain controlled the portion north of the Columbia River. By 1846, about 5,000 Americans settled south of the Columbia River. The British had a lesser population but it did not want to give up its claims to the Columbia River. The disputed territory in Oregon Country became an issue in the election of 1844.

Every state has there own flag and it doesn;t have 2 be the same as our countrys.

Thats is true, but the Oregon flag is also two sided, the only other two sided flag is the country of Paraguay.

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rocky mountain oysters

AKA: bull balls

Same way people talk today without the modern words.

You didn't specify which state, so here is all of them in the order in which they were admitted (courtesy of Wikipedia).

Delaware Friday, December 7, 1787 ‡

Pennsylvania Wednesday, December 12, 1787 ‡

New Jersey Tuesday, December 18, 1787 ‡

Georgia Wednesday, January 2, 1788 ‡

Connecticut Wednesday, January 9, 1788 ‡

Massachusetts Wednesday, February 6, 1788 ‡

Maryland Monday, April 28, 1788 ‡

South Carolina Friday, May 23, 1788 ‡

New Hampshire Saturday, June 21, 1788 ‡

Virginia Wednesday, June 25, 1788 ‡

New York Saturday, July 26, 1788 ‡

North Carolina Saturday, November 21, 1789 ‡

Rhode Island Saturday, May 29, 1790 ‡

Vermont Friday, March 4, 1791

Kentucky Friday, June 1, 1792

Tennessee Wednesday, June 1, 1796

Ohio Tuesday, March 1, 1803*

Louisiana Thursday, April 30, 1812

Indiana Wednesday, December 11, 1816

Mississippi Wednesday, December 10, 1817

Illinois Thursday, December 3, 1818

Alabama Tuesday, December 14, 1819

Maine Wednesday, March 15, 1820

Missouri Friday, August 10, 1821

Arkansas Wednesday, June 15, 1836

Michigan Thursday, January 26, 1837

Florida Monday, March 3, 1845

Texas Monday, December 29, 1845

Iowa Monday, December 28, 1846

Wisconsin Monday, May 29, 1848

California Monday, September 9, 1850

Minnesota Tuesday, May 11, 1858

Oregon Monday, February 14, 1859

Kansas Tuesday, January 29, 1861

West Virginia Saturday, June 20, 1863

Nevada Monday, October 31, 1864

Nebraska Friday, March 1, 1867

Colorado Tuesday, August 1, 1876

North Dakota Saturday, November 2, 1889

South Dakota Saturday, November 2, 1889

Montana Friday, November 8, 1889

Washington Monday, November 11, 1889

Idaho Thursday, July 3, 1890

Wyoming Thursday, July 10, 1890

Utah Saturday, January 4, 1896

Oklahoma Saturday, November 16, 1907

New Mexico Saturday, January 6, 1912

Arizona Wednesday, February 14, 1912

Alaska Saturday, January 3, 1959

Hawaii Friday, August 21, 1959

‡ Original 13 states. All became states on July 4, 1776. They are listed here, however, by their dates of ratifying the Constitution.

* Congress recognized the state of Ohio on February 19, 1803[1], but no formal date of statehood was set by the act of admission or a later resolution, as occurred with all other new states. On August 7, 1953, Congress passed a law retroactively setting the date of Ohio's statehood at March 1, 1803, the date when Ohio's first legislature convened.

† The actual statehood proclamations for North and South Dakota were intentionally shuffled so that no one actually knows which was admitted first; President Benjamin Harrison always refused to tell the order in which he signed the two statehood bills. However, North Dakota's proclamation was published first in the Statutes at Large (since it is first alphabetically).

when did the first large scale migration to oregon country take pleace

Life on the Oregon Trail was very hard for the pioneers and their families. Many of them walked with bare feet over 15 miles a day. They had to survive floods, bad weather, insects, snakes, lack of food, hostile Native Americans and diseases.

No, it's not likely. The Oregon Encyclopedia puts them in that state much later. In fact, several sources say that Quakers did not arrive in Oregon until the 1870s. This does not mean that one or two Quakers may have come to Oregon sooner, but the denomination itself did not officially establish houses of worship in Oregon till the 1870s; the first Quaker meeting house was established in 1878, and membership grew till there were about 1,700 Quakers and nine churches throughout Oregon by the early 1890s.