Section outline

  • • To become a state, the Michigan Territory needed 60,000 people and a constitution.

    • Steamboats and the Erie Canal caused more people to move and settle in Michigan. Soon, Michigan had enough people to become a state.

    • Ohio and Michigan had a conflict over a piece of land known as the Toledo Strip. That dispute got in the way of Michigan becoming a state.

    • Michigan finally became a state in January of 1837.