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The history of Wisconsin includes the story 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 when it was a territory.
When Wisconsin became a state on May 29, 1848, no provision was made for the section of land between the St. Croix River and the Mississippi River which had previously been organized as part of Wisconsin Territory. Additionally when Iowa became a state on December 28, 1846, no provision was made for official organization of the remainder of ...
Pages in category "History of Wisconsin" The following 63 pages are in this category, out of 63 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Milwaukee: the History of a City. (Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1948); a standard scholarly history. Wachman, Marvin. History of the Social-Democratic Party of Milwaukee, 1897-1910. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1945). Zeitlin, Richard H. Germans in Wisconsin (Wisconsin Historical Society, 2013).
Wisconsin (/ w ɪ ˈ s k ɒ n s ɪ n / ⓘ wiss-KON-sin) [12] is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States. It borders Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north.
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The Wisconsin glaciation extended from about 75,000 to 11,000 years ago, between the Sangamonian Stage and the current interglacial, the Holocene. The maximum ice extent occurred about 25,000–21,000 years ago during the last glacial maximum, also known as the Late Wisconsin in North America. The Last Glacial Period caused a much lower global ...