![]() ![]() Much of the land being talked about was already occupied by several Native American peoples, including members of the Potawatomi, Ho-Chunk, Ojibwe and Menomonie tribes. According to the ordinance that created the territory, three to five states were to be carved out of it - with an east-west line at the southern tip of Lake Michigan as the dividing line between the "lower three" states and the "upper two," explained Jonathan Kasparek, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at Waukesha. The "Old Northwest" was made up of all the land west of Pennsylvania, north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River, up to the border with Canada - real estate that now includes Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and part of Minnesota. What's now Wisconsin started in the United States as part of the Northwest Territory, the first territory formed after the Revolutionary War. There were bigger forces at work, including the national struggle over slavery. Turns out, it really wasn't the fault of Wisconsin's leaders. ![]()
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