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During the Territorial Era, Wisconsin lands changed hands many times. Wisconsin was first part of the Northwest Territory (1788-1800). As the country grew and expanded westward, new territories were configured from old ones.
this article examines Wisconsin’s state seal, designed in 1851. The article places Wisconsin’s seal in the context of all the antebellum state seals to better interpret its symbolism. In so doing it uncovers an intriguing sectional differ-ence between northern and southern seals—an absence of working white men
By the mid-1840s, the population of Wisconsin Territory had exceeded 150,000, more than twice the number of people required for Wisconsin to become a state. In 1846, the territorial legislature voted to apply for statehood. That fall, 124 delegates debated the state constitution.
On July 4, 1836, the Wisconsin Territory was born. President Andrew Jackson appointed General Henry Dodge as governor, with responsibility to conduct a census, hold elections and convene a territorial legislature.
CHAPTER IV-TERRITORIAL FOUNDATIONS AND DE- VELOPMENT. PRETERRITORIAL ROUTES. The first routes to Wisconsin were waterways. Bounded. by the Great Lakes and the Mississippi, the natural means. of approach was by watercraft.
Survey of Wisconsin art and artists covering the period 11000 BCE through the year 2000. Book includes 7 thoroughly researched chapters and more than 500 images that chronicle Wisconsin's...
Wisconsin was successively part of the original Northwest Territory (1788-1800), Indiana Territory (1800-1809), Illinois Territory (1809-1818), and Michigan Territory (1818-1836) before it became a territory in its own right (1836-1848).
