CH 11.1: The Oregon Country

Match the following with description from the section

• Whig candidate during 1844 Presidential election; lost to James K. Polk

• John Jacob Astor

• Negotiated a treaty with Spain; also was President

• Narcissa Whitman

• Missionary along with her husband, Dr. Marcus

• John Q. Adams

• Founder of American Fur Company

• Mountain Man

• Person who was a fur trapper in the Oregon Country

• Henry Clay

Oregon Country was ____ of California

• east

• north

• south

• west

The philosophy of ​ (a)   meant that the United States was meant to extend its boundaries all the way to the Pacific

• Manifest Destiny
• Emigrant Theory
• Joint Occupation
• Rendezvous Philosophy

The main route that settlers took through the Rocky Mountains to Oregon was called the ​ (a)  

• South Pass
• East Pass
• North Pass
• Sou

The main route that settlers took through the Rocky Mountains to Oregon was called the ​ (a)  

• South Pass
• East Pass
• North Pass
• Sou

​ (a)   was the last country to challenge the United States' control of Oregon

• Great Britain
• Spain
• Mexico
• France
• Russia

A ​ (a)   agreement between Great Britain and the United States to both settle in the Oregon Country

• joint occupation
• Manifest Destiny
• Oregon Country Occupation
• Rendezvous

​ (a)   and ​ (b)   lived in the ​ (c)   and worked as ​ (d)  

• Jim Bridge
• Kit Carson
• West
• guides
• James Beckworth
• James Polk
• missionaries
• North

​ (a)   made their living as ​ (b)   , going after ​ (c)  

• Mountain Men
• trappers
• beavers
• Space Men
• zookeepers
• whales

Along with the United States, and Great Britain, what other nations claimed parts of the Oregon Country in the mid-1800s?

• Spain

• Mexico

• France

• Germany

• Russia