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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.
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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.
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Minnesota's first state park, Itasca State Park, was established in 1891 [209] at the source of the Mississippi River. [210] By 1925, Minnesota had 23 parks. [ 211 ] 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. [ 211 ]
The eastern half of Minnesota Territory was admitted as the thirty-second state, Minnesota. [ah] The remainder became unorganized territory. [174] [224] August 31, 1858 Navassa Island was claimed under the Guano Islands Act. [4] Caribbean Sea: December 3, 1858 Howland Island was claimed under the Guano Islands Act. [4] Pacific Ocean: February ...
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 old land and the new : the journals of two Swiss families in America in the 1820s. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1965. Merrill D Peterson. Democracy, liberty and property; the State Constitutional Conventions of the 1820s. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1966. Robert A. McCaughey. "From Town to City: Boston in the 1820s".