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The term forty-niners refers to those who supported the 49th parallel as Oregon’s border.

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"Forty-niners" refers to the gold-seekers who went to California in 1849. Supporters of the 49th parallel as the Oregon boundary are not called forty-niners; the Oregon expansion slogan was "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight" (54°40').