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The Territory of Wisconsin was an organized and incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 3, 1836, until May 29, 1848, when an eastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Wisconsin.
On July 4, 1836, the Wisconsin Territory was born. President Andrew Jackson appointed General Henry Dodge as governor, with responsibility to conduct a census, hold elections and convene a territorial legislature.
The Territory of Wisconsin was an organized and incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 3, 1836, until May 29, 1848, when an eastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Wisconsin.
The Creation of Wisconsin Territory. With the decline of British influence after the War of 1812, the population of the Great Lakes region increased dramatically. New territories were created from old, and the most populous ones became states.
The Wisconsin Territory stretched north to the British-Canadian border and was originally bounded to the west by the Missouri River, although in 1838 an act of Congress made the Mississippi River the official western boundary. Over twenty thousand American Indians resided in the Wisconsin region in 1768.
