Michigan Territory
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Was an organized incorporated territory of the United States.
Establishment
June 1805: The Territory of Michigan was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from June 30, 1805, until January 26, 1837, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Michigan. Detroit was the territorial capital.
Chronology
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Was a war between the United States of America and Great Britain. Tensions originated in long-standing differences over territorial expansion in North America and British support for Native American tribes who opposed U.S. colonial settlement in the Northwest Territory.
1.1.Great Lakes and Western Territories Theatre
Was the theatre od war in the Great Lakes and Western territories of the War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom.
July 1812: The British conquered the strategically important border fortress of Fort Mackinac in a coup on July 17, 1812.
August 1812: The American garrison in Detroit surrenders to British forces.
October 1813: American attempts to regain Detroit were continually thwarted by poor communications and the difficulties of maintaining militia contingents in the field, until the Americans won a naval victory at the Battle of Lake Erie on 10 September 1813. This isolated the British at Amherstburg and Detroit from their supplies and forced them to retreat. Hull's successor Major General William Henry Harrison pursued the retreating British and their Indian allies and defeated them at the Battle of the Thames, where Tecumseh was killed.
November 1807: The Treaty of Detroit was a treaty between the United States and the Ottawa, Chippewa, Wyandot and Potawatomi Native American nations.
December 1816: A small slice of michigan was given to the new state of indiana.
September 1817: The Treaty of Fort Meigs was the most significant Indian treaty in Ohio since the Treaty of Greenville in 1795, and resulted in cession by the Indians of nearly all remaining Indian lands in northwestern Ohio.
September 1818: U.S. treaty concluded at St. Mary's (Ohio) with the Wyandot.
December 1818: In 1818, the portions of the Illinois Territory north of the future state boundary were transferred to the Michigan Territory. This decision was made by President James Monroe and Congress, as part of the process of defining state borders and territories in the expanding United States.
December 1818: The unorganized territory that was recently part of Indiana Territory, was assigned to Michigan Territory.
September 1819: Native Americans ceded a large tract of land (more than six million acres (24,000 km²) in the central portion of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan
July 1820: Indian Land Cessions in the U.S., 1784 to 1894
August 1821: U.S. treaty concluded at Chicago (Illinois) with the Ottawa, Chippewa and Potawatomi.
June 1824: In 1824, Michigan Territory gained a large parcel of land from unorganized territory, extending west to the Missouri River and White Earth River.
August 1824: U.S. treaty concluded at Washington D.C. with the Iowa, Sauk and Fox.
August 1827: U.S. treaty concluded at the Butte des Morts, on Fox river in Michigan Territory with the Chippewa, Menonini and Winnebago.
September 1827: U.S. treaty concluded at St. Joseph (Michigan Territory) with the Potawatomi.
August 1828: U.S. treaty concluded at Green Bay (Michigan Territory) with the Winnebago and united tribes of Potawatomi, Chippewa and Ottawa.
July 1829: U.S. treaty concluded at Prairie du Chien (Michigan Territory) with the Potawatomi, Chippewa, and Ottawa.
August 1829: U.S. treaty concluded at Prairie du Chien (Michigan Territory) with the Winnabago.
July 1830: U.S. treaty concluded at Prairie du Chien (Michigan Territory) with the Sauk and Fox, Medewakanton, Wahpekuta, Wahpeton and Sieseton bands of Sioux, Omaha, Iowa, Oto and Missouri.
February 1831: U.S. treaty concluded at Washington D.C. with the Menomini.
August 1832: Eastern Iowa, originally owned by the Sauk, Meskwaki (Fox), and Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Native American people, was acquired by treaty following their defeat by the United States in the Black Hawk War.
September 1832: U.S. treaty concluded at Rock Armstrong (Illinois) with the Winnebago.
September 1832: Indian Treaty signed in the aftermath of the Black Hawk War
September 1833: The second Treaty of Chicago granted the United States government all land west of Lake Michigan to Lake Winnebago in modern-day Wisconsin. The treaty included lands that are part of modern-day Illinois, as well. The treaty Native Americans (Potowatomi) in return received promises of various cash payments and tracts of land west of the Mississippi River.
September 1833: U.S. treaty concluded at Chichago (Illinois) with the Chippewa, Ottawa and Potawatomi.
March 1836: U.S. treaty concluded at Washington D.C. with the Ottawa and Chippewa.
May 1836: U.S. treaty concluded at Washington D.C. with the Swan-creek and Black-river bands of the Chippewa.
July 1836: The Territory of Wisconsin was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 3, 1836.
September 1836: U.S. treaty concluded at Cedar Point on Fox river (Wisconsin territory).
January 1837: U.S. treaty concluded at Detroit (Michigan) with the Saginaw tribe of the Chippewa nation.
January 1837: The Territory of Michigan was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from June 30, 1805, until January 26, 1837, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Michigan. Detroit was the territorial capital.
Disestablishment
January 1837: U.S. treaty concluded at Detroit (Michigan) with the Saginaw tribe of the Chippewa nation.
January 1837: The Territory of Michigan was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from June 30, 1805, until January 26, 1837, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Michigan. Detroit was the territorial capital.
Selected Sources
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