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'''1809: ''' Treat of Fort Wayne, athe Delaware, Potawatomi, Miami, Kickapoo, Wea, and Eel River Tribes ceded nearly 3 million acres of land. Part of the land belonged to the Shawnee and their Chief Tecumseh declared the transaction illegal. | '''1809: ''' Treat of Fort Wayne, athe Delaware, Potawatomi, Miami, Kickapoo, Wea, and Eel River Tribes ceded nearly 3 million acres of land. Part of the land belonged to the Shawnee and their Chief Tecumseh declared the transaction illegal. | ||
'''1811:'''The | '''1811: '''The battle of Tippecanoe U.S. under Gen. William Henry Harrison defeated the Shawnee, Chippewa, Miami, Kickapoo, Ottawa, Potawatomi, Sauk and Fox Indians. | ||
'''1813: ''' (October 5,) Tecumseh, the Shawnee chief was killed in Battle of the Tames. By 1815 there was no effective Indian opposition to settlement in Indiana. | |||
'''1816:'''Indiana became a state. | '''1816:'''Indiana became a state. | ||
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'''1816–1835:''' A dispute on the border between northern Indiana and southern Michigan was settled in 1835. | '''1816–1835:''' A dispute on the border between northern Indiana and southern Michigan was settled in 1835. | ||
'''1830s–1850s:''' New roads, canals, and railroads hastened settlement in central Indiana. The National Road reached Indianapolis in 1834. The Wabash and Erie Canal reached Terre Haute in 1850 and was completed to Evansville in 1853. Major railroad building was underway in the 1850s. | '''1830s–1850s:''' New roads, canals, and railroads hastened settlement in central Indiana. The National Road reached Indianapolis in '''1834'''. The Wabash and Erie Canal reached Terre Haute in 1850 and was completed to Evansville in 1853. Major railroad building was underway in the 1850s. | ||
'''1840s–1910s:''' Germans, Irish, Scandinavians, Mennonites, and Poles came to rural Indiana for good, inexpensive farmland. | '''1840s–1910s:''' Germans, Irish, Scandinavians, Mennonites, and Poles came to rural Indiana for good, inexpensive farmland. | ||
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