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In June 1851, three years after Wisconsin joined the Union; Martin’s crew of 500 workers began excavations at Kaukauna for the locks and dams system. In March of that same year, the state legislature changed the name of the town from Grand Kaukalin to Kaukauna.
- British Fur Trade in Wisconsin Continues
- British Control Ends After The War of 1812
- Protecting Furs and Minerals
- Indian Treaties and Forced Removals
- Black Hawk War
- Creating The Wisconsin Territory
- Achieving Statehood
The fur trade continued to flow from the Ojibwe, Menominee and other tribes through French-speaking traders in La Pointe and Green Bay, and then on to English-speaking merchants in Montreal and London. Henry S. Baird (1800-1875) and Elizabeth Baird (1810-1890), prominent settlers of Green Bay, documented the fur trade in their letters and documents...
When the War of 1812broke out, many Wisconsin residents paid no more attention to it than they did the previous war. Most traders and Indians sided with the British rather than the Americans, though many struggled to remain neutral. When the war ended in 1814, the Americans emerged victorious. The British retreated from Wisconsin in 1815. With the ...
Forts were built to protect not only furs, but also minerals. Europeans had known of the presence of lead ore in the upper Mississippi River area since the 17th century. Leadwas needed for ammunition, so in 1822 the federal government issued licenses to mine in southwestern Wisconsin on land they believed had been ceded by the Sauk Indians in 1804....
With so much mineral wealth at stake, U.S. officials hurried to wrest control of the area from its native inhabitants. In August of 1825, thousands of Indians from Wisconsin tribes gathered in Prairie du Chien, and federal officials engineered a general treaty of peace. More than 70 treaties were negotiated with Wisconsin Indians between 1804 and 1...
The most dramatic event in this treaty process came in 1832, when a portion of the Sauk Indians who resisted removal were met by an overwhelming U.S. military force that triggered the Black Hawk War. An 1804 treaty negotiated in St. Louis had led government officials to believe that they had secured the right to open Sauk lands to settlement. Chief...
White settlers rushed onto land left vacant by Indian removals. Lead miners from southern states (including some with slaves) and from Cornwall, England, were joined in the 1830s by farmers and developers from New York and New England. Immigrants from Britain, Norway and Switzerland founded colonies. Wisconsin's population in 1820 was estimated at ...
Statehood required drafting a state constitution. In the fall of 1846, delegates to a constitutional conventionargued for 10 weeks over a constitution for the new state. Their proposal outlawed private banks, allowed immigrants to vote, permitted married women to own property and left the question of black suffrage up to a popular vote. This was to...
2 days ago · Wisconsin, constituent state of the U.S. It was admitted to the union as the 30th state in 1848. It is bounded to the north by Lake Superior and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, to the east by Lake Michigan, to the south by Illinois, and to the west by Minnesota and Iowa. Its capital city is Madison.
The history of Wisconsin encompasses the story not only of the people who have lived in Wisconsin since it became a state of the U.S., but also that of the Native American tribes who made their homeland in Wisconsin, the French and British colonists who were the first Europeans to live there, and the American settlers who lived in Wisconsin ...
May 30, 2023 · Wisconsin was the 30th state to become part of the U.S., less than two years after Iowa joined the Union and about two years before California. What was Wisconsin called before it became a state?
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The city is the capital of Kaunas County, and the seat of the Kaunas city municipality and the Kaunas District Municipality. It is also the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kaunas.
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During its history, Wisconsin has had five capitols; the first two were territorial, temporary, capitols. The current Wisconsin State Capitol, in Madison, Wisconsin, sits in the center of the Capitol Park, located atop a hilltop on an isthmus formed by lakes Monona and Mendota.
