Illinois Territory

The Illinois Territory was an organized territory of the United States that existed from March 1, 1809 to December 3, 1818. At this time a part of this territory was separated and incorporated as 21 state in the Union. The name of this new state was Illinois. The territorial capital was Kaskaskia.

History

The area, which later became known as Illinois Territory was formerly the Illinois Country and was under French control, first as part of French Canada and later as part of Louisiana. With the 1763 Treaty of Paris, the British won control of the region and thus translated the French and Indian War to an end. During the later American Revolutionary War (1775-1783) took General (later Colonel) George Rogers Clark, on behalf of Virginia possession of all Illinois Country, which gave rise to the " County of Illinois ". It was an attempt, at least symbolically exercise governmental power over the area. However, Virginia ceded nearly all of its territorial claims north of the Ohio River in order to remunerate the objections of the surrounding states.

The resulting Illinois Territory was once a part of the great Northwest Territory, which consisted of 13 July 1787 to 4 July 1800, when the Indiana Territory was created as a result of the establishment of the State of Ohio. On February 3, 1809, 10th Congress of the United States passed legislation creating the Illinois Territory. It was the result of a large number of petitions to the residents of the western territories to Congress, complaining about their difficulties in territorial affairs.

The Illinois Territory originally joined the territories of present-day states of Illinois, Wisconsin, the eastern part of Minnesota and the western part of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan with a. After the founding of the State of Illinois, the remaining area of the territory was annexed to the Michigan Territory; thus heard the Illinois Territory to exist.

The original boundaries of the territory were defined as follows: