Wisconsin is admitted as the thirtieth U.S.…

May 1848 CE

Wisconsin is admitted as the thirtieth U.S. state on May 29, 1848.

The Erie Canal has facilitated the travel of both Yankee settlers and European immigrants to Wisconsin Territory.

Yankees from New England and upstate New York had seized a dominant position in law and politics, enacting policies that marginalized the region's earlier Native American and French-Canadian residents.

Yankees have also speculated in real estate, platted towns such as Racine, Beloit, Burlington, and Janesville, and established schools, civic institutions, and Congregationalist churches.

At the same time, many Germans, Irish, Norwegians, and other immigrants have also settled in towns and farms across the territory, establishing Catholic and Lutheran institutions.

The growing population has allowed Wisconsin to gain statehood.

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