First territorial delegate elected in Michigan 295
Maine admitted into the Union
Steamboat navigation extended to Mackinac

1820. Fort Snelling erected (Minnesota) .
Missouri admitted into the Union.
Public road built from Michigan to Chicago.

1821. Minnesota's first saw mill erected.
1822. First mill erected on site of Minneapolis.
1823. First steamboat ascended Upper Mississippi
to Fort Snelling..

First grist mill operated in Minneapolis 1824. General school system enacted for Ohio. 1825. Kenyon College established.

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Township government authorized for Michi

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Erie Canal opened to traffic.

1827. Common school system enacted in Michigan Elective legislative council established in Michigan . .

Pork-packing industry began in Chicago.

1828. First Methodist school established in Illinois 281 1830. Indian reservations acquired in Iowa 1832. Bonneville explored Rocky Mountain dis

Ohio and Lake Erie Canal completed.
Cincinnati, Sandusky, and Cleveland Railroad

chartered ..

Cincinnati and Toledo Canal constructed

1834. Wisconsin Territory organized.

Iowa included in Territory of Michigan
The Maumee Canal completed.

1835. State government established by Michigan Ohio and Michigan in armed opposition over Toledo

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1835. Sandusky, Mansfield, and Newark Railroad

chartered.

Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati Rail-
road construction begun

Saw mills erected in Michigan

1836. Congress adjudged Toledo to Ohio

Nicollet explored the source of the Missis

sippi

Wisconsin Territory organized.

First legislature met in Wisconsin.

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Iowa included in Wisconsin Territory

Arkansas acquired statehood

Madison and Lafayette Railroad construction

commenced.

Toledo incorporated

1836-1848. Illinois and Michigan Canal constructed
1837. Michigan admitted into the Union.
1838. Iowa Territory organized

First territorial legislature of Iowa convened. 314 1842. South Pass of the Rocky Mountains explored

1843. Frémont explored Utah and the Pacific Slope The Hocking Canal constructed.

1844. A Fourier community established in Wis

consin.

1845. Texas annexed.

Texas admitted into the Union.

Florida admitted into the Union

1846. Enabling Act for Wisconsin passed Wisconsin adopted a State government Iowa admitted into the Union

Bituminous coal first used for furnace fuel in
Ohio

1847. Township made the unit of political govern-
ment in Illinois .

1850. Illinois Central Railroad construction begun. 1851. Minnesota lands west of Mississippi opened to settlement.

1852. Gold discovered in Montana

1853. Frémont made his continental expedition .
1854. The Territory of Nebraska organized.
1857. Minnesota adopted a constitution
1858. Minnesota admitted into the Union

Dakota Indians ceded land to United States. 1859. Provisional government established in Dakota First legislative assembly met in Dakota.

1861. Dakota organized as a territory.

1862. Dakota territorial legislature met

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Territorial legislature elected in Montana Nevada acquired statehood . . 1866. Constitution of Nebraska adopted 1867. Nebraska admitted into the Union. 1874. Black Hills gold discoveries.

1889. North and South Dakota admitted to state

Constitutions of North and South Dakota

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME VIII

FACING PAGE

title

Simon Kenton, pioneer, who named "Kaintuckee” (Canelands).
By Morgan. From the painting in possession of Colonel
Reuben T. Durrett, of Louisville
Colonel Daniel Boone. By Chester Harding. From the paint-
ing in possession of Colonel Reuben T. Durrett, of Louisville title

Isaac Shelby, first Governor of Kentucky. By Matthew Jouett.
From the painting in possession of Colonel Reuben T. Durrett,
of Louisville

Map of the Mississippi region and Province of Louisiana, by the
Elder Homan, dated 1687, but evidently published in the first
half of the seventeenth century, as it shows the route of
Saint-Denis in 1715-1716. From the original in the private
collection of Julius F. Sachse, Esq., Philadelphia

George Rogers Clark. From a painting in possession of the
Missouri Historical Society

John Jay. From the painting in Independence Hall, Philadelphia

Old French mansion of Kaskaskia, Illinois, showing encroachments of the Mississippi. From a photograph in possession of the Wisconsin Historical Society.

Title

pages of the laws of the Illinois Territory and of the terri-
tory northwest of the river Ohio. Originals in possession of
the Chicago Historical Society

Page from Kearny's diary, relative to expedition from St. Louis to Council Bluffs. Original in possession of the Missouri Historical Society.

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Letter of George Rogers Clark to George Mason. In the collection of Colonel Durrett, of Louisville

Arthur St. Clair. After the portrait by Charles Willson Peale

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Rufus Putnam. After the pastel by James Sharpless, in Independence Hall, Philadelphia

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General James Wilkinson. From the original by Jarus, in the collection of Colonel Durrett, of Louisville

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Thomas Jefferson. After the painting by Thomas Sully, in possession of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia. 176

Robert R. Livingston. From the copy by Pratt from the original
by Gilbert Stuart, in Independence Hall, Philadelphia.
William Charles Cole Claiborne. After the miniature by A.
Duval .

First and last pages of the treaty transferring Louisiana from the
Republic of France to the United States of America. From
the original in the Department of State, Washington..
Documents signed by Daniel Boone. Originals in possession of
the Wisconsin Historical Society and of the Missouri Histor-
ical Society.

Zebulon Montgomery Pike. From the original by Charles Willson Peale, in Independence Hall, Philadelphia

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Page of the journal kept by Sergeant Charles Floyd, on the Lewis and Clark expedition. From the original owned by the

Wisconsin Historical Society.

Map of the United States, showing the territory reserved for the
Indians, circa 1830. From the original in the Library of
Congress

George Flower and wife.

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Founders of the English colony at
From the originals in

Albion, Edwards County, Illinois.
possession of the Chicago Historical Society

Lewis Cass. From a photograph in the collection of Colonel C. M.
Burton, of Detroit

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