Oregon Territory


 * Namesake of Oregon Trail
 * Started in Independence, Missouri
 * Northwestern Territory in Willamette Valley
 * Northern Boundary gave rise to slogan "54 40 or fight"
 * Helped Polk win the presidency
 * Home of Nez Perce
 * "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever"
 * After a measles epidemic, the Cayuse killed a missionary named Marcus Whitman
 * Leader of the "Great Migration"
 * Namesake "organic laws" helped free a slave family in Holmes vs. Ford