The Utah territory was carved up, with some forming Nevada, some added to Colorado and some to Wyoming. Utah became the 45th state in 1896., Utah’s mountains, high plateaus and deserts – containing the largest saltwater lake in the Western Hemisphere, at the state capital of Salt La...
As gold and silver were discovered in the mountains, Congress named the territory Utah after local Native Americans. The Utah territory was carved up, with some forming Nevada, some added to Colorado and some to Wyoming. Utah became the 45th state in 1896., Utah’s mountains, high plateaus...
In 1818 the Territory of Missouri applied for admission into the Union as a state. That application had not been acted upon in 1819 when Representative Tallmadge, of New York, proposed an amendment to the effect “that the further introduction of slavery or involuntary servitude be prohibited, ...
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The United States Census Bureau released the results of the 2010 Census on 2010-12-21. The table shows the resident population of each state as of 2010-04-01. Under Population history, I have added data from all censuses back to the first one in 1790....
In the early 19th century, Saint-Simon, C. Fourier, R. Owen, and other Utopian socialists added to the concept of a just social order with the ideas of labor as a form of gratification, the flowering of human capabilities, the provision of all the needs of the individual, centralized pl...
The end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 and the roughly 500,000 square miles (1.3 million square km) of new territory that the United States gained as a result of it added a new sense of urgency to the dispute. More and more Northerners, driven by a sense of morality or an ...
Flag:TheIllinois flagis a simple representation of the Great Seal of Illinois against a white background. In 1969, the General Assembly voted to add the word “ILLINOIS” under the Great Seal of the flag. The State’s name was added to the flag to ensure that people not familiar with th...
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As gold and silver were discovered in the mountains, Congress named the territory Utah after local Native Americans. The Utah territory was carved up, with some forming Nevada, some added to Colorado and some to Wyoming. Utah became the 45th state in 1896., Utah’s mountains, high plateaus...