Wisconsin Territory

The Wisconsin Territory was an organized territory of the United States, which existed 1836-1848. It was created by an Act of Congress Act, which President Andrew Jackson signed on 20 April 1836 and which entered into force on 3 July 1836. Belmont, Wisconsin was originally intended as the capital of the territory, but it was replaced in October 1836 by the current capital of Madison.

After cleavage of the Iowa Territory in 1838 was from the remaining eastern part of the territory of the State of Wisconsin. He joined on 29 May 1848 as 30th state in the Union.

Territorial area

The Wisconsin Territory included the present states of Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and a part of North Dakota and South Dakota to the north of the Missouri River. Much of the territory was originally part of the Northwest Territory in 1787, which in 1814 formally ceded by the Kingdom of Great Britain. The part, which today corresponds to Iowa and the Dakotas were originally part of the Louisiana Purchase, 1803 Louisiana ceded its colony by France to the United States. These were cleaved from the Missouri Territory in 1821 and 1834 affiliated with the Michigan Territory.

The territory of the later Wisconsin Territory was added to the Indiana Territory, as this - was detached from the 1800 Northwest Territory - in preparation for the recording of Ohio as a state. In 1809 it was split off from the Indiana Territory and added to the Illinois Territory. When Illinois became a state in 1818, the area was annexed to the Michigan Territory. When, in 1836 also became a State of Michigan, the west of the former Michigan Territory was split off under the name of Wisconsin Territory. This eventually narrowed down in 1838 by the establishment of the Iowa Territory. The current state of Wisconsin comprises most of the time remaining Wisconsin Territory. The remaining portion of the territory was officially dissolved in 1849 and united with the Minnesota Territory.

History

President Andrew Jackson appointed Henry Dodge appointed governor and John S. Horner Minister. The first legislative assembly of the new territory was convened on October 25, 1836 by Governor Henry Dodge in Belmont, Lafayette County, Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin Territory separated in 1836 from the Michigan Territory in the time when Michigan was preparing for accession to the Union. However, there are certain irregularities in the timing. The Congress had Michigan's petition for creation of a state rejected because of the simmering dispute over the Toledo Strip, although the area with 86,000 inhabitants able to find more than those required by the Northwest Ordinance 60,000. Then we wrote in October 1835 its own state constitution in Michigan and began to govern themselves. On July 3rd, 1836 Congress separated from the Wisconsin Territory of Michigan Territory, but only on January 26, 1837 Michigan was admitted as a State into the Union.

The acting governor of the Michigan Territory, Stevens T. Mason, called on 25 August 1835 to select a Western Legislative Assembly, which was in Green Bay, Wisconsin, to meet on the 1st of January, in the hope that for this transitional period to be able to provide some continuity in governance. But already on August 15, 1835 Mason was because of the dispute over the Toledo strip (Toledo Strip), better known as the Toledo War, was delivered by President Jackson from his office. John S. Horner became his successor. As one of his first acts Horner announced on November 9, 1835 publishes its own proclamation convening the council already December 1, 1835. Thus he gave the delegates less than a month's time to learn something about this change, and in time to come to this meeting. This caused considerable anger among delegates who therefore ignored this call. The meeting, known as the Rump Council, therefore, came as planned on January 1, 1836 in Green Bay together. Horner, however, who allegedly had wanted to come, was delayed because of an illness, so that in the absence of the governor, the council could do little more than the administrative and ceremonial duties.

Michigan had to give in the dispute over the Toledo Strip. To compensate Michigan received the Upper Peninsula.