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Citizens as Soldiers: A History of the North Dakota National Guard. (1986). 447 pp. online; Crawford, Lewis F. History of North Dakota (3 vol 1931), excellent history in vol 1; biographies in vol. 2–3; Danbom, David B. "Our Purpose Is to Serve": The First Century of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station. (1990). 237 pp.
The Territory of Dakota was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, [1] until November 2, 1889, when the final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North and South Dakota.
North Dakota (/ d ə ˈ k oʊ t ə / ⓘ də-KOH-tə) [5] is a landlocked U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the indigenous Dakota Sioux.It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba to the north and by the U.S. states of Minnesota to the east, South Dakota to the south, and Montana to the west.
The Enabling Act of 1889 (25 Stat. 676, chs. 180, 276–284, enacted February 22, 1889) is a United States statute that permitted the entrance of Montana and Washington into the United States of America, as well as the splitting of Territory of Dakota into two states: North Dakota and South Dakota.
Dakota Territory was split in two, and it was admitted to the US as the 39th state, North Dakota, and 40th state, South Dakota. November 8, 1889. Montana Territory was admitted to the US as the 41st state, Montana. November 11, 1889. Washington Territory was admitted to the US as the 42nd state, Washington. August 12, 1889
Accession Date Area (sq.mi.) Area (km 2.) Cost in dollars Original territory of the Thirteen States (western lands, roughly between the Mississippi River and Appalachian Mountains, were claimed but not administered by the states and were all ceded to the federal government or new states by 1802)
This is a list of the individual North Dakota year pages. In 1889, the United States admitted the Dakota Territory as the 39th and 40th U.S. states , establishing the States of North and South Dakota.
Dakota Territory was split in half along the "seventh standard parallel north", a few miles south of 46° north, and admitted as the thirty-ninth state, North Dakota, and the fortieth state, South Dakota. [239] [311] November 8, 1889 Montana Territory was admitted as the forty-first state, Montana. [268] [311] November 11, 1889