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明尼苏达 (Minnesota) 成为美国第32州
1858年5月11日
虽然到达明尼苏达的交通很方便，但移民到明尼苏达却很缓慢，直到19世纪的后半期，东岸的人们开始听说这里有许多林地与肥沃的大草原时，才陆陆续续有移民迁徙到这个地方。在1850年至1857年之间，这里的人口数从6077人快速增加到超过15万人。在那之前，欧吉布哇 (Ojibwa，也称作吉普哇Chippewa) 与达科塔 (Dakota，也称作西奥克斯Sioux) 这两个部落以这里为家。对他们来说，各州的疆界是不存在的，所以他们的领土才会延伸到今日的明尼苏达。西元1600年中期，法国宣称这是它的领土。这片土地后来在巴黎条约 (1783) 年与路易西安那购买案 (1803) 中，成为美国的领土。
Despite the convenient access to the state, immigration was slow until the second half of the 19th century, when people in the east started to hear about Minnesota's woodlands and fertile prairie. Between 1850 and 1857, the state population skyrocketed from 6,077 to more than 150,000. Long before that, the Ojibwa (Chippewa) and Dakota (Sioux) tribes made the land their home. For them state borders were nonexistent, so their territory extended well beyond what is today Minnesota. The French claimed the territory in the mid-1600s. It became U.S. territory through the Treaty of Paris (1783) and the Louisiana Purchase (1803).
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