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The Movement for Statehood Illinois History Slide 2 The Movement For Statehood War of 1812 ends people are eager for IL to become a state 2 men led the way Slide 3 Daniel Pope Cook Slide 4 Daniel Pope Cook: 1815 came to Illinois to practice law Helped make ILs first newspaper The Illinois Herald (later Intelligencer) Used the paper to publicize the push for statehood By 1817, the Governor requested a census Slide 5 Nathanial Pope Slide 6 Nathanial Pope: Daniels uncle IL delegate to Congress Got the bill for statehood going but needed to prove pop. numbers Put in an amendment to the bill move northern border up 41 miles Slide 7 Slide 8 U.S. President passed bill but IL still had to prove census #s to become a state Population required for statehood changed now only needed 40,000 Slide 9 Census Frauds: Counted families 2 or 3 times Counted settlers passing through to Missouri + Iowa Overestimated populations of distant villages By doing this, they reached 40K Slide 10 A Free State or Slave State Aug. 1818 convention called to write a constitution of IL Delegates divided whether IL should be free or slave Slide 11 Many people probably do not realize that Illinois had slaves. Slide 12 Agreement made those that owned slaves could keep them, but no new slaves brought in Illinois becomes a state Dec. 3, 1818 The 21 st state