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The Territory of Oregon was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 14, 1848, [1] until February 14, 1859, when the southwestern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Oregon.
The Oregon Territory stretched from the Pacific coast to the Rocky Mountains, encompassing the area including present-day Oregon, Washington, and most of British Columbia. Originally Spain, Great Britain, Russia, and the United States claimed the territory.
On August 14, 1848 the United States congress approved the formation of the Oregon Territory. At the time the Oregon Territory included all of the present day states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and parts of Montana and Wyoming. Its capital city was located in Oregon City, not far from Portland.
The Territory of Oregon encompassed the segments of present-day Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming and Montana as well as parts of British Columbia which is now a Canadian province. The Territory’s first capitol was Oregon City.
In 1848 Oregon officially became a U.S. territory, and in 1857 the territory petitioned for statehood. Oregon became the 33rd state admitted to the Union on February 14, 1859.
Signed in Washington, D.C., on June 15, the Oregon Treaty ended a “Joint Occupancy” of twenty-eight years over an expansive region that stretched from present-day southeast Alaska to the Rocky Mountains on the east and the 42 nd parallel on the south.
When Indians in what is now Eastern Washington killed settlers led by missionary Marcus Whitman in 1847, pressure increased on the federal government to provide protection and order in the region. Congress passed the "Act to Establish the Territorial Government of Oregon" on August 14, 1848.
Oregon - Exploration, Settlement, Economy: When the first Europeans arrived in the Oregon country—a region vaguely defined at the time but roughly comparable to the present Pacific Northwest—about 125 Native American groups lived in and around the area.
The Oregon Territory was a vast region in the Pacific Northwest of North America that was jointly occupied by the United States and Great Britain from the early 19th century until the mid-1840s.
An enlargeable map of the United States as it has been since 1959. Historical territorial claims of Spain in the present state of Oregon: Nueva California, 1768–1804. Gran Cuenca, 1776–1821. Alta California, 1804–1821. Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819.