The US nor any other Europeans had claim to any part of the New World.
Pope Alexander VI, Roman Catholic Pope from 1492 until his death, is the most memorable of the corrupt and secular popes of the Renaissance. On seeing the indications of the vast riches that were available in the New World; he gave the kings od Spain, and Portugal divine rite to the new world. For this The Church of Rome would get a tithe of all the wealth they could strip from the land. Other nations used their divine rite; which went back to The Holy Roman Empire.
In the KJV; they are reffured to as the possessers of the dwelling places thatare not their's!
Therefore the law is slacked, snd judgment doth never go forth: For the wicked doth com about righteousness; therefore Wrong judgment proceedeth. Behold ye among the heathan, and reguard, and wonder marvelously: for I shall work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you. For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling places that are not theirs. They are terrible and dreaful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed from themslves. 1:8. Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly like eagels that hasteth to eate. [HABAKKUK 1:4-5-6-7.]
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Great Britain and the United States shared the territory from 1818 til 1846 when it was divided between the US and Great Britain. The United States obtained land for Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
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Robert Gray established the first U.S. claim in Oregon.
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