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339. The Oregon Treaty, 1846.
339．俄勒岡條約（1846年）
The matter was now taken up in earnest. "All Oregon or none," "Fifty-four forty or fight," became popular cries. The United States gave notice of the ending of the joint occupation. The British government suggested that Oregon should be divided between the two nations. In 1818 he boundary between the United States and British North America had been fixed as the forty-ninth parallel from the Lake of the Woods to the Rocky Mountains. It was now proposed to continue this line to the Pacific. The British government, however, insisted that the western end of the line should follow the channel between Vancouver's Island and the mainland so as to make that island entirely British. The Mexican War was now coming on. It would hardly do to have two wars at one time. So the United States gave way and a treaty was signed in 1846. Instead of "all Oregon," the United States received about one-half. But it was a splendid region and included not merely the present state of Oregon, but all the territory west of the Rocky Mountains between the forty-second and the forty-ninth parallels of latitude.
此時到了認真解決這個問題的時候，"全占或放棄，只有一個俄勒岡"、"54度到40度，否則就開戰"成為當時流行的口號。美國政府發出結束共同占有俄勒岡的聲音，英國政府則建議將俄勒岡分割給兩個國家。1818年美國與美洲北部英國領地的界限被確定為從伍茲湖到落基山脈與49度緯線平行的一條線，現在美國提出將這條線延長到太平洋。然而，英國政府堅持這條線的西端應該按照溫哥華島嶼與大陸之間的海峽來劃定，這樣可以使得這個島嶼完全屬于英國。此時墨西哥戰爭已經打響，美國不可能同時與兩個國家開戰，因此，美國做出讓步，英美于1846年簽訂條約。美國沒有得到"整個俄勒岡"，而是得到這個地區的一半，但這個地區極其美好，它不僅包括今天的俄勒岡州，還包括落基山脈以西位于42度緯線與49度緯線之間的地區。
