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The treaty that Polk signed with the British regarding Oregon gave the United States all of the territory it had demanded. divided the Oregon Territory at the forty-ninth parallel, establishing a border between the United States and British Canada. continued the joint occupancy of Oregon between the United States and Britain for a period of twenty-five years.

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The 1846 Oregon Treaty established the border between British North America and the United States along the 49th parallel until the Strait of Georgia, where the marine boundary curved south to exclude Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands from the United States
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