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Transcript of Michigan History
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Michigan HistoryA Timeline
by Mr. Reece
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Timeline
•1600’s ▫Algonquin Indians,
consisting of the Potawatomi, the Chippewa, and the Ottawa tribes rise to prominence in the land which is not Michigan. A Chippewa Warrior
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Michigan Tribes
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Indian Trails
Highways
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1600’s European Visitors• 1622 French Explorer Etienne
Brule is the first to visit.
• 1634 Jean Nicolet paddles onto Michigama meaning
“great lake”.
• 1668 Jacques Marquette builds a mission which is the first
European settlement in Michigan.
• 1680 Fur trade begins to flourish in the Great Lake area.
Father Marquette
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1700 - 1800• 1701 Antoine de la Cadillac builds a fort where
Detroit is now located.
• 1787 Congress combines land from what is now Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and parts of Minnesota to form the Northwest Territory.
• 1800 Michigan becomes part of the Indiana Territory.
• 1805 Congress creates the Territory of Michigan with Detroit as its capital.
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1800’s•1813 Lewis Cass becomes Michigan’s territorial governor.
•1817 John Jacob Astor founds the American Fur Company on Mackinac Island.
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1800’s•1835 The Territory of Michigan and the
state of Ohio fight over ownership of a band of land call the “Toledo Strip”. Ohio receives the strip and Michigan gains the western
Upper Peninsula.
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1837• On January 26, 1837, Michigan becomes the 26th
state to be admitted to the Union.
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1800’s•1840 The logging era begins.
•1844-45 The copper and iron mining boom begins in the Upper Peninsula.
•1847 The state capital is moved from Detroit to Lansing.
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1800’s
Quincy Mine “Old Faithful”
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1800’s▫1894 C.W. Post markets Postum.
▫1896 Henry Ford builds his first automobile in Detroit.
▫1899 Ransom E. Olds opens Michigan’s first automobile factory in Detroit.
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1900’s•1903 Henry Ford organizes the Ford Motor Company.
◦W. K. Kellogg starts a breakfast food
processing company in Battle Creek.
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1900’s
•1908 Ford markets the Model T. William Durant forms General Motors.
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1900’s• 1909 Michigan builds America’s first concrete
highway.
• 1914 Ford offers $5.00 a day to work in automobile factory.
• 1935 Michigan is in the Great Depression.
• 1941 Michigan factories are used to build equipment needed to help the WWII effort.
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1900’s•1974 The Mackinac Bridge is opened.
Labor Day Walk
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1900’s
•1957 Gerald Ford becomes the first President from
Michigan.
•1989 The Michigan Library and Historical Museum is dedicated in Lansing.
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1900’s
•1992 Michigan’s Capitol is restored to its original appearance.
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2000’s•2001 Detroit celebrates its 300th birthday.
•2003 Jennifer Granholm becomes first female governor.