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*New settlers surged into the Oregon Territory, primarily from the '''Mississippi River valley, the Midwest and the South'''. | *New settlers surged into the Oregon Territory, primarily from the '''Mississippi River valley, the Midwest and the South'''. | ||
*Foreign-born immigrants came mainly from '''Canada, Germany, Scandinavia, England and Russia'''. | *Foreign-born immigrants came mainly from '''Canada, Germany, Scandinavia, England and Russia'''. | ||
*Later immigrants came from '''China, Japan, the Philippines and Latin America'''. | |||
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