Flashcards: Oregon Country

The maritime fur trade was a ship-based fur trade system that focused on acquiring furs of sea otters and other animals from the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast and natives of Alaska.

Chinook Jargon (also known as chinuk wawa) is a now-extinct pidgin trade language, originating in the Pacific Northwest, and spreading during the 19th century from the lower Columbia River, first to other areas in modern Oregon and Washington, then British Columbia and as far as Alaska and Yukon Territory, sometimes taking on characteristics of a creole language.

The Oregon Treaty is a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United States that was signed on June 15, 1846, in Washington, D.

The Oregon Trail is a 2,170-mile (3,490 km) historic east–west, large-wheeled wagon route and emigrant trail that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon.

Fort Langley is a former trading post of the Hudson's Bay Company, now located in the community of Fort Langley opposite McMillan Island.

Webley John Hauxhurst, Jr.

Fort Vancouver was a 19th-century fur trading outpost along the Columbia River that served as the headquarters of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia Department, located in the Oregon Country.

Robert Stuart, (February 19, 1785 – October 28, 1848) was an American fur trader and the son of Charles Stuart.

Mervin Vavasour (1821 - 27 March 1866) was a member of the Royal Engineers, one of the corps of the British Army.

Jean-Baptiste-Zacharie Bolduc (30 November 1818 – 8 May 1889) was a Québécois Jesuit.

General Joel Palmer (October 4, 1810 – June 9, 1881) was an American pioneer of the Oregon Territory in the Pacific Northwest region of North America.

The Adventure was a sloop maritime fur trade ship built by the crew of Captain Robert Gray on his second voyage to the Northwest Coast of North America.

John Minto IV (October 10, 1822 – February 25, 1915) was an American pioneer born in Wylam, England.

John Work (c. 1792 – 22 December 1861) was a chief factor of the Hudson's Bay Company and head of one of the original founding families in Victoria, British Columbia.

Dr. Elijah White (1806–1879) was a missionary and agent for the United States government in Oregon Country during the mid-19th century.

Ewing Young (1799 – February 9, 1841) was an American fur trapper and trader from Tennessee who traveled in what was then the northern Mexico frontier territories of Santa Fe de Nuevo México and Alta California before settling in the Oregon Country.

Felix Hathaway (1798 – March 6, 1856) was an American carpenter and pioneer in what became the state of Oregon.

Fort Hall was built in 1834 as a fur trading post by Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth on the Snake River in the eastern Oregon Country, part of southeastern Idaho in the present-day United States.

Gabriel Franchère (1786–1863) was a French Canadian author and explorer of the Pacific Northwest.

Fort Clatsop was the encampment of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the Oregon Country near the mouth of the Columbia River during the winter of 1805-1806.

Whitman Mission National Historic Site is a United States National Historic Site located just west of Walla Walla, Washington, at the site of the former Whitman Mission at Waiilatpu.

Fort Astoria (also named Fort George) was the primary fur trading post of John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company (PFC).

The Star of Oregon was a schooner sailing vessel of the mid-19th century used on the west coast of North America.

Jason Lee (June 28, 1803 – March 12, 1845), a Canadian missionary and pioneer to United States, was born on a farm near Stanstead, Quebec.

George Washington Bush (1779 –April 5, 1863) was an American pioneer and one of the first multiracial (Irish and African) non-Amerindian settlers.

The Pacific Fur Company (PFC) was an American fur trade venture wholly owned and funded by John Jacob Astor that functioned from 1810 to 1813.

Peter French (April 30, 1849 – December 26, 1897) was a rancher in the western United States in the late 19th century.

William A. Slacum (1799- November 1, 1839) was an American sailor and diplomat.

The Battle of Woody Point was an incident in 1811 in western Canada involving the Tla-o-qui-aht natives of the Pacific Northwest and the Tonquin (1807), a merchant ship of the Astor Expedition.

Nathaniel Ford (c. 1795 – January 9, 1870) was an American politician and Oregon pioneer during the time of the Oregon Territory.

Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth (January 29, 1802 – August 31, 1856) was an American inventor and businessman in Boston, Massachusetts who contributed greatly to its ice industry.

Robert Moore (October 2, 1781 – September 2, 1857) was an American politician and pioneer in the Oregon Country.

Marcus Whitman (September 4, 1802 – November 29, 1847) was an American physician and missionary in the Oregon Country.

Fort Boise refers to two different locations in the western United States, both in southwestern Idaho.

Fort Nisqually was an important fur trading and farming post of the Hudson's Bay Company in the Puget Sound area of what is now DuPont, Washington and was part of the Hudson's Bay Company's Columbia Department.

François Norbert Blanchet (September 30, 1795 – June 18, 1883) was a French Canadian-born missionary priest and prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who was instrumental in establishing the Catholic Church presence in the Pacific Northwest.

Hall Jackson Kelley (February 24, 1790 – January 20, 1874) was an American settler and writer from New England known for his strong advocacy for settlement by the United States of the Oregon Country in the 1820s and 1830s.

James Biddle (February 18, 1783 – October 1, 1848), of the Biddle family, brother of financier Nicholas Biddle and nephew of Captain Nicholas Biddle, was an American commodore.

William or Wilson Price Hunt (March 20, 1783 – April 13, 1842) was an early pioneer of the Oregon Country in the Pacific Northwest of North America.

The Columbia was a 310 ton, 6 gun barque in the service of the Columbia District of the Hudson's Bay Company on the Columbia River and elsewhere in the Pacific Northwest in the 1830s and 1840s.

Loriot was an American sailing ship involved in exploration of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.

John Floyd (April 24, 1783 – August 17, 1837) was a Virginia politician and soldier.

Reverend David Leslie (1797 - March 1, 1869) was an American missionary and pioneer in what became the state of Oregon.

Samuel Kimbrough Barlow (December 7, 1795 – July 14, 1867) was a pioneer in the area that became the U.

Samuel Parker (1779–1866) was an American missionary in the Pacific Northwest, being the first Presbyterian priest in the region.