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The Provisional Government of Oregon was a popularly elected settler government created in the Oregon Country, in the Pacific Northwest region of North America. It provided a legal system and a common defense amongst the mostly American pioneers settling an area then inhabited only by the many Indigenous Nations. Much of the region's geography and many of the Natives were not known by people of European descent until several exploratory tours were authorized at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. According to a message from the government in 1844, the rising settler population was beginning to flourish among the "savages", who were "the chief obstruction to the entrance of civilization" in a land of "ignorance and idolatry."[4]
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Provisional Government of Oregon | |||||||||
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1843–1849 | |||||||||
The Salmon Seal of the PGO[1]
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Capital | Oregon City | ||||||||
Common languages | English, French | ||||||||
Government | Republic | ||||||||
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• 1843-1845 | Executive Committee | ||||||||
• 1845-1849 | Governor Abernethy | ||||||||
Legislature | Single chamber | ||||||||
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May 2 1843 | |||||||||
March 3 1849 | |||||||||
Currency | Beaver skins,[2] Wheat,[3] U.S. dollar, Mexican peso[2], Peruvian real,[2] | ||||||||
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