Territorial Evolution of Oregon
- Territorial evolution of the United States
- International territory that would later become part of the Territory of Oregon:
- Oregon Country, 1818–1846
- Provisional Government of Oregon, 1843-1849 (extralegal)
- Oregon Country, 1818–1846
- U.S. territories that encompassed land that was previously part of the Territory of Oregon:
- State of Deseret, 1849-1850 (extralegal)
- Territory of Washington, 1853–1889
- Territory of Jefferson, 1859-1861 (extralegal)
- Territory of Nebraska, 1854–1867
- Territory of Dakota, 1861–1889
- Territory of Idaho, 1863–1890
- Territory of Montana, 1864–1889
- Territory of Wyoming, 1868–1890
- U.S. states that encompass land that was once part of the Territory of Oregon:
- Oregon, 1859
- Montana, 1889
- Washington, 1889
- Idaho, 1890
- Wyoming, 1890
- International territory that would later become part of the Territory of Oregon:
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“All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth—including America, of course—consist of pilferings from other people’s wash.”
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“The more specific idea of evolution now reached is—a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.”
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