Unit 3 Lesson 7: Becoming a State
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• 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.