in Africa. The Kalahari Desert (Dorsland in Afrikaans) is a large semi-arid savanna in South Africa covers 900,000 km Â² sand (350,000 square miles) that much of Botswana and parts of Namibia and South Africa.
The Oregon Territory, 1846. Along with territorial disputes with Spain and Mexico over the Southwest, the fate of the Oregon Territory was one of the major diplomatic issues of the first half of the 19th century.
A: Oregon didn't become a state until 1859. In 1848 though, it was a region made up of what we know as Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and the western part of Montana. It was called the Oregon Country because it was not part of the US yet.ome families got on in smaller towns in Missouri. Other families just left their old homes in Illinois or Missouri and met up with the Oregon Trail later. A families journey ended when they claimed a stop of land somewhere in Oregon Country.