Editing Wisconsin Territory (section)

==Territorial area==
The Wisconsin Territory initially included all of the present-day states of [[Wisconsin]], [[Minnesota]], and [[Iowa]], as well as part of [[the Dakotas]] east of the [[Missouri River]]. Much of the territory had originally been part of the [[Northwest Territory]], which was ceded by [[Kingdom of Great Britain|Britain]] in 1783. The portion in what is now Iowa and the Dakotas was originally part of the [[Louisiana Purchase]], though a small fraction was part of a parcel ceded by Great Britain in [[Treaty of 1818|1818]], and was split off from the [[Missouri Territory]] in 1821 and attached to the [[Michigan Territory]] in 1834.

The portion that was formerly part of the [[Northwest Territory]] and which later became the state of Wisconsin was part of the [[Indiana Territory]] when this was formed in 1800. In 1809, it became part of the [[Illinois Territory]]; then, when [[Illinois]] was about to become a state in 1818, this area was joined to the [[Michigan Territory]]. Then the Wisconsin Territory was split off from Michigan Territory in 1836 as the state of [[Michigan]] prepared for statehood.<ref name="Wisconsin1921">{{cite book|author=State of Wisconsin|title=Wisconsin statutes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zL4oAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA2701|access-date=April 18, 2015|year=1921|publisher=Democrat Printing Co.|page=2701}}</ref> In 1838, the section of the territory to the west of the Mississippi became the [[Iowa Territory]].

In 1838, the [[Iowa Territory]] was formed, reducing the Wisconsin Territory to the boundaries for the next ten years; upon granting statehood to Wisconsin, its boundaries were once again reduced, to their present location.<ref>Strong, Moses McCure. ''History of the Territory of Wisconsin, from 1836 to 1848'' Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printers, 1885; pp. 67-266</ref>

In 1850, 10 years after the end of the [[Second Great Awakening]] (1790–1840), of the 341 churches with [[Church service|regular services]] in the Wisconsin, 110 were [[History of Methodism in the United States|Methodist]], 64 were [[Catholic Church in the United States|Catholic]], 49 were [[Baptists in the United States|Baptist]], 40 were [[Presbyterianism in the United States|Presbyterian]], 37 were [[Congregationalism in the United States|Congregationalist]], 20 were [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]], 19 were [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal]], and
2 were [[Reformed Church in America|Dutch Reformed]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Selcer|first=Richard F.|editor-last=Balkin|editor-first=Richard|title=Civil War America: 1850 to 1875|year=2006|place=New York|publisher=[[Infobase Publishing|Facts on File]]|page=143|isbn=978-0816038671}}</ref>
In the [[1840 United States census]], [[List of counties in Wisconsin|22 counties in the Wisconsin Territory]] reported the following population counts:<ref>{{cite report|editor-last=Forstall|editor-first=Richard L.|title=Population of the States and Counties of the United States: 1790–1990|pages=183–185|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|url=https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1990/population-of-states-and-counties-us-1790-1990/population-of-states-and-counties-of-the-united-states-1790-1990.pdf|access-date=May 18, 2020}}</ref>
{| class=wikitable
! Rank
! County
! Population
|-
|1
|[[Milwaukee County, Wisconsin|Milwaukee]]
|5,605
|-
|2
|[[Iowa County, Wisconsin|Iowa]]
|3,978
|-
|3
|[[Grant County, Wisconsin|Grant]]
|3,926
|-
|4
|[[Racine County, Wisconsin|Racine]]
|3,475
|-
|5
|[[Walworth County, Wisconsin|Walworth]]
|2,611
|-
|6
|[[Brown County, Wisconsin|Brown]]
|2,107
|-
|7
|[[Rock County, Wisconsin|Rock]]
|1,701
|-
|8
|[[Portage County, Wisconsin|Portage]]
|1,623
|-
|9
|[[Crawford County, Wisconsin|Crawford]]
|1,502
|-
|10
|[[Green County, Wisconsin|Green]]
|933
|-
|11
|[[Jefferson County, Wisconsin|Jefferson]]
|914
|-
|12
|[[St. Croix County, Wisconsin|St. Croix]]
|809
|-
|13
|[[Washington County, Wisconsin|Washington]]
|343
|-
|14
|[[Dane County, Wisconsin|Dane]]
|314
|-
|15
|[[Calumet County, Wisconsin|Calumet]]
|275
|-
|16
|[[Manitowoc County, Wisconsin|Manitowoc]]
|235
|-
|17
|[[Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin|Fond du Lac]]
|139
|-
|18
|[[Winnebago County, Wisconsin|Winnebago]]
|135
|-
|19
|[[Sheboygan County, Wisconsin|Sheboygan]]
|133
|-
|20
|[[Sauk County, Wisconsin|Sauk]]
|102
|-
|21
|[[Dodge County, Wisconsin|Dodge]]
|67
|-
|22
|[[Marquette County, Wisconsin|Marquette]]
|18
|-
|
|Wisconsin Territory
|30,945
|-
|}