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Conflict to Constitution: Gaining Settlers and Statehood:
Rivalries flare in the 1780s as Britain, the United States, and Native Americans confront each other. Then, in 1783, America wins independence from Britain... and wins the Old Northwest. When American settlers begin to arrive, native peoples struggle to hold on to the land that has been their home.
The young United States begins to extend its political control over the region in the 1780s. There is a steadily growing influx of settlers, and the arrival of newcomers eager for cheap farmland sparks conflicts both bitter and bloody. As the nation wrestlers with how to distribute the land, it confronts Native Americans determined to defend their homes.
In 1800, Congress splits the Northwest Territory in two: the Indiana Territory in the west, and what will become Ohio in the east. Sixteen years later, a new state carved out of this territory adopts a constitution. Indiana is born. |