Editing History of Minnesota (section)

===Land acquisition===
[[File:Minnesota Territory 1849.svg|thumb|right|Map of [[Minnesota Territory]]<br />(1849–1858)]]
All of the land east of the Mississippi River was granted to the United States by the [[Treaty of Paris (1783)|Second Treaty of Paris]], which in 1783 ended the [[American Revolution]]. This included what would become modern-day Saint Paul but only part of Minneapolis, along with the northeast, north-central, and east-central portions of the future state. The western portion of the state was part of [[Louisiana (New Spain)|Spanish Louisiana]] since the [[Treaty of Fontainebleau (1762)]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=The northern boundary of the Louisiana Purchase|author=Lass, William E.|volume=35|issue=1|date=Winter 2015|page=40|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24465560|journal=Great Plains Quarterly|doi=10.1353/gpq.2015.0006 |jstor=24465560 |s2cid=161440918 |access-date=February 17, 2022|url-access=subscription}}</ref> The wording of the treaty in the Minnesota area depended on landmarks reported by fur traders, who erroneously reported an "Isle Phelipeaux" in Lake Superior, a "Long Lake" west of the island, and the belief that the Mississippi River ran well into modern Canada.{{sfn|Lass|1998|pp=78–79}} Most of the state—the area west of the Mississippi—was purchased in 1803 from France as part of the [[Louisiana Purchase]]. Parts of northern Minnesota were considered to be in [[Rupert's Land]].<ref name=Narratives>{{cite book|title=The Red Road and Other Narratives of the Dakota Sioux|via=Google Books|access-date=February 19, 2022|first1=Samuel I.|last1=Mniyo|first2=Robert|last2=Goodvoice|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|year=2020|isbn=978-1496219367|page=Appendix 1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YODEDwAAQBAJ}}</ref> The exact definition of the boundary between Minnesota and [[British North America]] was not addressed until the [[Anglo-American Convention of 1818]],{{sfn|Lass|1998|p=80}} which set the U.S.–Canada border at the [[49th parallel north|49th parallel]] west of the [[Lake of the Woods]] (except for a small chunk of land now dubbed the [[Northwest Angle]]). Border disputes east of Lake of the Woods continued until the [[Webster-Ashburton Treaty]] of 1842.{{sfn|Lass|1998|p=81}}

During the first half of the 19th century, the northeastern portion of the state was a part of the [[Northwest Territory]], then the [[Illinois Territory]], then the [[Michigan Territory]], and finally the [[Wisconsin Territory]]. The western and southern areas of the state, although theoretically part of the Wisconsin Territory from its creation in 1836, were not formally organized until 1838, when they became part of the [[Iowa Territory]].{{page needed|date=March 2022}}{{Sfn|Wingerd|2010|p=}}