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The nearby city of Anaconda was the dream child of industrialist Marcus Daly (1841–1900), whose Anaconda Copper Mining Company (ACM) by 1900 employed three-quarters of Montana's wage earners; it dominated the state's politics and press into the 1950s. The smelters in Anaconda process the copper mined in Butte.
The following table is a list of all 50 states and their respective dates of statehood. The first 13 became states in July 1776 upon agreeing to the United States Declaration of Independence, and each joined the first Union of states between 1777 and 1781, upon ratifying the Articles of Confederation, its first constitution. [6]
The State of Montana creates Garfield County and Treasure County. [11] 1918: November 11: An armistice halts the Great War. 1917: April 6: The United States declares war on the German Empire and enters the Great War. February 22: The State of Montana creates Carter County and Wheatland County. [11] 1916: August 25
Montana (/ m ɒ n ˈ t æ n ə / ⓘ mon-TAN-ə) [6] is a landlocked state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States.It borders Idaho to the west, North Dakota to the east, South Dakota to the southeast, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, and Saskatchewan to the north.
Montana became the next mad rush to get rich quick, when gold was discovered on July 28, 1862 on Grasshopper Creek. Bannack was founded in 1862 and named after a local Native American tribe.
The Territory of Montana was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 26, 1864, [1] until November 8, 1889, when it was admitted as the 41st state in the Union as the state of Montana.
An enlargeable map of the United States after the creation of the Territory of Montana on May 26, 1864. An enlargeable map of the United States after the admission of Montana to the Union on November 8, 1889. An enlargeable map of the United States as it has been since Hawaiʻi was admitted to the Union on August 21, 1959.
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