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The Louisiana Purchase was the basis of the US claim and England's claim was based on the voyage of James Cook in search of the Northwest Passage and the activities of the Hudson Bay Company in the Oregon Country. The Treaty of 1818 provided for joint occupation and settlement as well as other issues. Instead of Fifty-four Forty or Fight the two nations settled their dispute with the 1846 Oregon Treaty.

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