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The "Gopher State" moniker, by which the state today is widely known, was selected in the mid-19th century as a means to create an identity for the state. Though some believed that "Beaver State" should be selected instead as more dignified, a political cartoon featuring a gopher soon solidified "Gopher State" as the more well-known identity.
Minnesota's first state park, Itasca State Park, was established in 1891 [208] at the source of the Mississippi River. [209] By 1925, Minnesota had 23 parks. [ 210 ] During the Depression, with nine of its parks used as housing for the Civilian Conservation Corps, a division of state parks was created to administer the park system. [ 210 ]
The Treaty of Traverse des Sioux (10 Stat. 949) was signed on July 23, 1851, at Traverse des Sioux in Minnesota Territory between the United States government and the Upper Dakota Sioux bands. In this land cession treaty, the Sisseton and Wahpeton Dakota bands sold 21 million acres of land in present-day Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota to the ...
The Territory of Minnesota was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 3, 1849, [1] until May 11, 1858, when the eastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Minnesota and the western portion became unorganized territory and shortly after was reorganized as part of the Dakota Territory.
no change to map: October 28, 1856 Baker Island and Jarvis Island were claimed under the Guano Islands Act. [4] Pacific Ocean: May 11, 1858 The eastern half of Minnesota Territory was admitted as the thirty-second state, Minnesota. [ah] The remainder became unorganized territory. [170] [220] August 31, 1858 Navassa Island was claimed under the ...
Treaty of Mendota. The Treaty of Mendota (10 Stat. 954) was signed in Mendota, Minnesota, on August 5, 1851, between the United States federal government and the Mdewakanton and Wahpekute Dakota people of Minnesota. The agreement was signed near Pilot Knob on the south bank of the Minnesota River and within sight of Fort Snelling.
The Mitchell Map. The Mitchell Map is a map made by John Mitchell (1711–1768), which was reprinted several times during the second half of the 18th century. The map, formally titled A map of the British and French dominions in North America &c., was used as a primary map source during the Treaty of Paris for defining the boundaries of the newly independent United States.
Missouri Compromise, 1820 federal statute enabling the admission of Missouri (a slave state) and Maine (a free state) into the Union. Toledo War, 1835–36 boundary dispute between Ohio and the adjoining Michigan Territory, which delayed Michigan's admission to the Union. Texas annexation, the 1845 incorporation of the Republic of Texas into ...