The northern boundary of Oregon territory was parallel 54° north. At the time, a treaty called for the joint occupation of this territory by both American and British settlers. More and more Americans began to settle there, however, during the 1840s in a bout of "Oregon fever." James K. Polke, the largely unknown presidential candidate and democrat, recognized the potential of reigning in this movement for his purposes. He thus advocated expansion that would encompass California, Texas, and all of Oregon territory, running on a slogan of "fifty-four forty or fight!"
The southern boundary of the Northwest Territory is the Ohio River, which was provided a means of governing through the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
The boundary was most the northern borders of the states Arkansas, Tennesee,Texas, and Virginia.
The Appalachian Mountains became the western boundary of the British colonies.
The Mississippi River formed most of the western boundary and the Ohio River formed most of the southern boundary of the territory. (Today, the state of Virginia, which was south of the Ohio, is now broken into Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia.)
In 1787, Congress banned slavery in the new northwest territory. The territory included the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. By prohibiting slavery in the territory, it made the Ohio River the boundary between slave and non-slave states.
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The Arkansas River is the river in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory. The boundary to the north was along the 100th meridian to the Arkansas River, then westward to its source in the Rockies.
Not exactly. He negotiated a treaty with Britain that established the disputed northern boundary of the Oregon Territory, but the territory already existed.
The Yukon, Alaska, Nunavut, BC, AB, SK and MB.
British territory surrounded the globe. there was no western boundary.
Canada forms the northern boundary of the United States.
It depends on which "top" is meant. Australia's northernmost tip is called Cape York. It is the tip of the peninsula which defines the northern boundary of Queensland. The northern half of the Northern Territory is colloquially known as the "Top End".
Mississippi river
Spanish territory
it means you either fight or you stay back and out of the way.