AH Challenge: Codominion of Oregon

Glen

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Challenge - Keep a continuing Codominion of Oegon going between the US and Britain as long as possible.
 
Well, if I recall a big reason why Polk pushed for annexation (and division) was because he planned to add "slave territory" to the US (The Mexican Cession), and thus realized that he had to get some "free territory" to compensate. So, you have to have a non-expansionist...
 

Glen

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Imajin said:
Well, if I recall a big reason why Polk pushed for annexation (and division) was because he planned to add "slave territory" to the US (The Mexican Cession), and thus realized that he had to get some "free territory" to compensate. So, you have to have a non-expansionist...

Or not much more to expand into. Maybe less of a Mexican Cession?
 
Glen said:
Or not much more to expand into. Maybe less of a Mexican Cession?
The Oregon cession happened before the Mexican Cession, though. And Texas Annexation alone was causing huge problems at the time....
 

Glen

Moderator
Imajin said:
The Oregon cession happened before the Mexican Cession, though. And Texas Annexation alone was causing huge problems at the time....

Okay...but how about some scenarios?

We're talking about a continued Oregon Codominion, preferably into the 21st century.
 
Hmmm...it's kind off iffy, but what if the US and UK agree to kick the American Indians into the PNW, a la Oklahoma?

The PNW is nice land though, with lots of resources...but then, wasn't Oklahoma considered good farmland?
 

Glen

Moderator
fenkmaster said:
Hmmm...it's kind off iffy, but what if the US and UK agree to kick the American Indians into the PNW, a la Oklahoma?

The PNW is nice land though, with lots of resources...but then, wasn't Oklahoma considered good farmland?

Nice thought, but probably not as you say.
 

Glen

Moderator
Hmmm....maybe the simplest would be to have the negotiators deadlock in the 1840s, and sign a 99 year agreement to codominion of the region, kicking the problem to the 1940s. In that time there'd be a lot of history that builds in the Oregon Country....
 
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