1. North of California
2. originally claimed by Great Britain, France, Russia, and Spain, but the Spanish claim was later taken up by the United States.
3. was based on the Inter caetera and Treaty of Tordesillas of 1493–94, as well as explorations of the Pacific coast in the late 18th century.
4. The Adams-Onís Treaty
5. Britian was the last to challenge the United States for Oregon.
6. He worked out joint occupation
7. The Joint occupation is what allowed people from both Great Britain and United States to settle in Oregon.
8. The American Fur trappers and missionary groups had been living in the region for decades. The first overland immigrants to Oregon, intending primarily to farm, came in 1841 when a small band of 70 pioneers left Independence, Missouri
9. a small group of Canadian fur traders based in Montreal they dominated the fur trade in the Northwest.
10. Adventurer-artists
11. Fur trappers
12. The Oregon Trail
13. Merchants, Traders.
14. Emigrate
15. Conestoga wagons
16. Platte River
