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Name: Iowa Territory

Type: Polity

Start: 1838 AD

End: 1846 AD

Parent: usa

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Was an organized incorporated territory of the United States.

Establishment


  • July 1838: The Territory of Iowa was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 4, 1838, until December 28, 1846, when the southeastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the state of Iowa.
  • Chronology


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    1. Events


  • October 1842: U.S. treaty concluded at the Sauka dn Fox agency of Iowa with the Sauk and Fox.

  • January 1846: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894

  • October 1846: U.S. treaty concluded at Washington D.C. with the Winnebago.

  • December 1846: In 1846, the portion of Iowa Territory south of 43°30′ north and east of the Big Sioux River was admitted as the twenty-ninth state, Iowa. The remaining territory became unorganized, with no established government or boundaries.

  • December 1846: The portion of Iowa Territory south of 43°30′ north and east of the Big Sioux River was admitted as the twenty-ninth state, Iowa. The remainder became unorganized territory.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1846: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894
  • October 1846: U.S. treaty concluded at Washington D.C. with the Winnebago.
  • December 1846: The portion of Iowa Territory south of 43°30′ north and east of the Big Sioux River was admitted as the twenty-ninth state, Iowa. The remainder became unorganized territory.
  • December 1846: In 1846, the portion of Iowa Territory south of 43°30′ north and east of the Big Sioux River was admitted as the twenty-ninth state, Iowa. The remaining territory became unorganized, with no established government or boundaries.
  • Selected Sources


  • Royce, C. C. (1899): Indian Land Cessions in the United States, Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, p. 778
  • Royce, C. C. (1899): Indian Land Cessions in the United States, Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, p. 780
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