Russo-American Treaty
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The Russo-American Treaty of 1824 gave Russian claims on the Northwest Pacific coast of North America south of 54°40'N over what Americans know as the Oregon Country to the United States. A previous treaty between Russia and Great Britain had fixed the Russian Tsar's southernmost boundary of Alaska at the line of 54°40'N — the present southern tip of the Alaska Panhandle — but Russian rights to trade in the area south of that line had remained. The dispute between the United States and Britain over jurisdiction in the region was already underway as a result of an 1818 treaty between the U.S. and Spain over the latter's former claims north of the 42nd Parallel (today's Oregon-California boundary)
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Pioneer History of Oregon (1806 - 1890) |
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Oregon Country · Oregon Treaty · Oregon missionaries · Executive Committee · Oregon Trail · Oregon boundary dispute · Pacific Fur Company · Hudson's Bay Company |
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Champoeg Meetings · Treaty of 1818 · Russo-American Treaty · Donation Land Claim Act · Whitman massacre |
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Fort Astoria · Oregon Mission · Fort Vancouver · Champoeg, Oregon · Willamette Stone · Barlow Road |
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George Abernethy · Sam Barlow · Tabitha Brown · Abigail Scott Duniway · Peter French · Joseph Gale · William Gilpin · David Hill · Jason Lee · John McLoughlin · Joseph Meek · Ezra Meeker · Marcus Whitman · Narcissa Whitman |
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Native Peoples History · History to 1806 · Pioneer History · Modern History |
