Oregon Trail region

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The Oregon Trail region is the historic corridor across the American West that 19th-century emigrants followed to settle Oregon and other western territories.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historic region
migration corridor
travel route corridor
associatedWith California Territory NERFINISHED
Idaho Territory NERFINISHED
Manifest Destiny ideology NERFINISHED
Oregon Territory NERFINISHED
Washington Territory NERFINISHED
associatedWithEvent Oregon boundary dispute resolution
Westward migration to Oregon
crosses Columbia Plateau NERFINISHED
Great Plains NERFINISHED
Rocky Mountains NERFINISHED
Snake River Plain NERFINISHED
extendsFrom Missouri River frontier
extendsTo Oregon Country NERFINISHED
Willamette Valley NERFINISHED
follows Oregon Trail NERFINISHED
hasCulturalSignificance symbol of American frontier migration
hasEconomicRole opening of overland trade routes
hasHeritageDesignation National Historic Trail corridor (Oregon National Historic Trail) NERFINISHED
hasMajorRiverSystems Columbia River NERFINISHED
Platte River NERFINISHED
Snake River NERFINISHED
Sweetwater River NERFINISHED
historicallyUsedBy American emigrant wagon trains
fur traders
gold seekers
missionaries
settler families
historicalPeriod 19th century
influenced displacement of Native American peoples
settlement patterns in the Pacific Northwest
locatedIn American West NERFINISHED
United States of America
surface form: United States
partOf Westward Expansion of the United States NERFINISHED
timeEnd late 19th century
timeOfPeakUse 1840s
1850s
timeStart 1830s
traversesPresentDay Idaho NERFINISHED
Kansas NERFINISHED
Missouri NERFINISHED
Nebraska NERFINISHED
Oregon NERFINISHED
Wyoming NERFINISHED
usedFor overland emigration
settlement of Oregon Country
westward migration

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