Oregon | House Divided

Record Data

Place Unit Type

State or Province

Containing Unit

Events

Date		Type
02/05/1846	First newspaper on the Pacific Coast published	Education/Culture
05/16/1859	Governor Whiteaker convenes the legislature of the new state of Oregon for the first time	Lawmaking/Litigating
01/06/1846	House of Representatives passes resolution to end joint occupation of Oregon Territory	Lawmaking/Litigating
06/04/1866	In a hotly contested state and federal election, Oregon Republicans win narrow victories.	Campaigns/Elections
08/15/1859 - 08/18/1859	Mount Hood in Oregon in volcanic eruption	Crime/Disasters
02/14/1859	Oregon admitted to the Union as the 33rd state	Lawmaking/Litigating
04/14/1860	San Francisco lumber vessel sunk off the Oregon coast with all hands	Crime/Disasters
07/17/1860	The Pacific republic movement spreads to Oregon with rumors printed in the Salem press	Lawmaking/Litigating
09/01/1858	U.S. Army units defeat a Native American force in the Battle of Four Lakes in Oregon	Battles/Soldiers

People

Places

Name	Type
Baker County, OR	County
Benton County, OR	County
Clackamas County, OR	County
Clatsop County, OR	County
Columbia County, OR	County
Coos County, OR	County
Curry County, OR	County
Douglas County, OR	County
Grant County, OR	County
Jackson County, OR	County
Josephine County, OR	County
Lake County, OR	County
Lane County, OR	County
Linn County, OR	County
Marion County, OR	County
Multnomah County, OR	County
Polk County, OR	County
Tillamook County, OR	County
Umatilla County, OR	County
Union County, OR	County
Washington County, OR	County
Yamhill County, OR	County

Documents

Date	Title
08/03/1848	David Wilmot’s Speech in the House of Representatives, Washington, DC, August 3, 1848
01/01/1857	Washington (DC) National Era, "The Future Judged by the Past," January 1, 1857
04/30/1857	Washington (DC) National Era, "The Southern Press," April 30, 1857
08/13/1857	Washington (DC) National Era, “Slavery in Oregon,” August 13, 1857
08/27/1857	Washington (DC) National Era, "Slavery in Oregon," August 27, 1857
10/30/1857	Boston (MA) Liberator, "Buchanan Democracy," October 30, 1857
01/03/1858	New York Herald, "The Kansas Trouble in Congress," January 3, 1858
01/05/1858	New York Herald, "The Slavery Question in Congress," January 5, 1858
07/05/1858	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, "More Fighting and More Drains upon the Treasury," July 5, 1858
07/07/1858	Chicago (IL) Press and Tribune, “The Indian War on the Pacific Coast,” July 7, 1858
07/15/1858	New York Herald, "The Mormons Brought to Terms," July 15, 1858
02/14/1859	New York Times, “Admission of Oregon,” February 14, 1859
02/19/1859	Boston (MA) Advertiser, “The New State of Oregon,” February 19, 1859
02/21/1859	New York Times, “Boundaries of Oregon,” February 21, 1859
03/06/1859	Memphis (TN) Appeal, “Protection of Slave Property in Oregon,” March 6, 1859
03/07/1859	Charleston (SC) Mercury, “Br. [Mr.] Buchanan and the Democratic Party,” March 7, 1859
03/22/1859	Boston (MA) Advertiser, “Untitled,” March 22, 1859
06/27/1859	Fayetteville (NC) Observer, “Caught,” June 27, 1859
05/12/1860	Atchison (KS) Freedom’s Champion, “The Charleston Convention,” May 12, 1860
07/26/1860	Ripley (OH) Bee, “Bell for a Slave Code,” July 26, 1860
08/25/1860	(Montpelier) Vermont Patriot, "California for Douglas," August 25, 1860
11/30/1860	San Francisco (CA) Evening Bulletin, "Complaints Against the Oregon Overland Mail," November 30, 1860
03/25/1861	Cleveland (OH) Herald, “Spirit of Washington Letters,” March 25, 1861

Images

Oregon Territory, 1857

Oregon, 1866, zoomable map

Oregon, Washington Territory, Idaho, Western Montana, and British Columbia, 1860, zoomable map

Bibliography

The Diplomacy of Annexation: Texas, Oregon, and the Mexican War
Slavery and the Oregon Territorial Issue: Prelude to the Compromise of 1850