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Following the Cockstock Incident in 1844, the legislature decreed that African Americans could not reside in the Oregon Country, only David Hill and Asa Lovejoy voting against the bill. [ 4 ] [ 6 ] The punishment for any freemen was to be administered every six months of their residency being "not less than twenty nor more than thirty-nine ...
The Territory of Oregon originally encompassed all of the present-day states of Idaho, Oregon and Washington, as well as those parts of present-day Montana and Wyoming west of the Continental Divide. [9] Its southern border was the 42nd parallel north (the boundary of the Adams-Onis Treaty of 1819), and it extended north to the 49th parallel.
The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the U.S. state of Oregon on February 28, 2020. On that day, Governor Kate Brown created a coronavirus response team; on March 8 she declared a state of emergency; and on March 23 she issued a statewide stay-at-home order with class C misdemeanor charges for violators.
Keizur's service in the 1844 pre-territorial legislature helped lay the groundwork for Oregon's territorial government and eventual statehood. [14] [15] [16] When he was elected captain of the Oregon Rangers, he became the state's first militia commander and thus the founding leader of what is today the Oregon National Guard. [4] [17] [22]
The first meeting of the 1844 legislature took place June 18 at the home of Felix Hathaway in Oregon City. [5] [6] This session lasted until June 27, and another session was held from December 16 to 21 at the residence of John E. Long, also in Oregon City. [5]
The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]
Many white settlers feared retaliation and the Oregon Rangers was organized on 23 March 1844 in response. [20] The widow of Cockstock was Wasco and her relatives were angry at his death. They argued that he had not gone to Oregon City with violent intent. [ 16 ]
Oregon Institute building circa 1844 in present-day Salem. The plans called for meetings to be held at the French-Canadian enclave of Champoeg on the banks of the Willamette River. This part of the Willamette Valley was and still is known as the French Prairie, since its early settlers spoke French as their first language.