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1855 Michigan State University was founded as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, becoming the first land grant university in the United States. 1861-1865 Michigan sent 90,000 men, nearly a quarter of the state's male population, to fight in state regiments in the Civil War. 1871 Fires burned Manistee and Holland.
Dunbar, Willis F. and George S. May. Michigan: A History of the Wolverine State, 3rd ed. (1995) the standard comprehensive textbook 1980 edition online Farmer, Silas (1889). The history of Detroit and Michigan; or, The metropolis illustrated; a full record of territorial days in Michigan, and the annals of Wayne County .
The current state of Michigan was part of the Northwest Territory in 1787, when the Northwest Ordinance made slavery illegal [11] with the clause "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist in the territory". [8] Even so, there were still enslaved people living in Michigan until 1837. [11]
The 1854 Michigan gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1854. Republican nominee Kinsley S. Bingham defeated Democratic nominee John S. Barry with 53.02% of the vote. General election
July 6 – In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the Republican Party is held. July 8 – An anti-Catholic riot in Bath, Maine , destroys a church used by Irish Catholics . July 13 – Bombardment of San Juan del Norte : The USS Cyane attacks San Juan del Norte , Nicaragua .
In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was one in which they were prohibited. Between 1812 and 1850, it was considered by the slave states to be politically imperative that the number of free states not exceed the number of slave states ...
Michigan State Historic Sites by county (12 C, 46 P) ... Pages in category "History of Michigan" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total.
After the arrival of Europeans, the area that became the Michigan Territory was first under French and then British control. The first Jesuit mission, in 1668 at Sault Saint Marie, led to the establishment of further outposts at St. Ignace (where a mission began work in 1671) and Detroit, first occupied in 1701 by the garrison of the former Fort de Buade under the leadership of Antoine de La ...