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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
The Homestead Act of 1862 provided free land to settlers who could claim and "prove-up" 160 acres (0.65 km 2) of federal land in the Midwest and western United States. Montana did not see a large influx of immigrants from this act because 160 acres were usually insufficient to support a family in the arid territory. [44]
Original 9 Montana counties. Montana became a territory May 28, 1864 and the first delegation created nine counties: Beaverhead, Big Horn (renamed Custer in 1877), Chouteau, Deer Lodge, Gallatin, Jefferson, Edgerton (renamed Lewis and Clark in 1867), Madison, and Missoula. Montana became a state on November 8, 1889.
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.
This is a timeline of pre-statehood Montana history comprising substantial events in the history of the area that would become the State of Montana prior to November 8, 1889. This area existed as Montana Territory from May 28, 1864, until November 8, 1889, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Montana.
The location of the state of Montana in the United States of America An enlargeable map of the state of Montana An enlargeable map of the 56 counties of the state of Montana. Indigenous peoples; English territory of Rupert's Land, 1670–1707; French colony of Louisiane east of Continental Divide, 1699–1764 Treaty of Fontainebleau of 1762