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Slave states and free states. An animation showing the free/slave status of U.S. states and territories, 1789–1861 (see separate yearly maps below). The American Civil War began in 1861. The 13th Amendment, effective December 6, 1865, abolished slavery in the U.S. In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery ...
Michigan (/ ˈ m ɪ ʃ ɪ ɡ ən / ⓘ MISH-ig-ən) is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest region of the United States.It borders Wisconsin to the northwest in the Upper Peninsula, and Indiana and Ohio to the south in the Lower Peninsula; it is also connected by Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Erie to Minnesota and Illinois, and the Canadian province of Ontario.
At a total area of 97,990 square miles (253,800 km 2) – including those territorial waters – Michigan is the largest state east of the Mississippi River, and the eleventh largest state overall. More than half of the state's land area – 30,156 square miles (78,100 km 2) – is still forest . The state lies roughly between 41° and 49 ...
There are 83 counties in the U.S. state of Michigan. The boundaries of these counties have not changed substantially since 1897. However, throughout the 19th century, the state legislature frequently adjusted county boundaries. County creation was intended to fulfill the goal of establishing government over unorganized territory, but a more ...
Michigan's state parks system was started in 1919. Three Michigan state parks pre-date the creation of the park system in 1919: Mackinac Island State Park (1895), Michilimackinac State Park (1909) and Interlochen State Park (1917). Mackinac Island State Park was created in 1895. It had served as the nation's second national park for two decades ...
The panel approved the state House map redrawn by Michigan's redistricting commission in a court-ordered remedial mapping process that included a public hearing process to solicit feedback on the ...
The history of human activity in Michigan, a U.S. state in the Great Lakes, began with settlement of the western Great Lakes region by Paleo-Indians perhaps as early as 11,000 B.C.E. One early technology they developed was the use of native copper, which they would fashion into tools and other implements with "hammer stones".
An enlargeable map of the state of Michigan. Names Common name: Michigan. Pronunciation: / ˈ m ɪ ʃ ɪ ɡ ən / ⓘ Official name: State of Michigan; Abbreviations and name codes; Postal symbol: MI; ISO 3166-2 code: US-MI; Internet second-level domain: .mi.us. Nicknames The Great Lakes State (previously used on license plates)