Category:Exploration To Statehood
European exploration of the area that is now Ohio began in the seventeenth century. The first explorers were French, but British ones soon followed their earlier counterparts. By the mid eighteenth century, French and British traders arrived in the region, trading for furs with the local American Indian populace. Tensions quickly erupted between the French and the British, resulting in the French and Indian War. The British won this war, driving the French from the Ohio Country and the rest of North America.
British settlers soon moved into the Ohio Country, despite British attempts to prevent this from occurring. Following Great Britain's defeat in the American Revolution, the newly independent American states controlled what is now Ohio. The Confederation Congress and, then, the United States government arranged for the surveying and sale of land in what is now Ohio. Tensions between whites and American Indians quickly erupted as more and more whites entered the region. Relatively quickly, the federal government, through warfare and treaties, secured the land for the whites. During the first years of the nineteenth century, a sufficient number of whites lived in what is now Ohio for the region to become a state.
To learn more about this pivotal era in Ohio's history, please browse these entries at your leisure.
Pages in category "Exploration To Statehood"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 354 total.
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- Aaron Burr
- Adam Betz
- Adams County
- Alexandria, Ohio
- Algonquian Indians
- American Frontier
- American Revolution
- Amos Spafford
- An Act to Regulate Trade and Intercourse With the Indian Tribes, and to Preserve Peace on the Frontiers (Transcript)
- Anthony Wayne
- Archibald Lochry
- Arnold H. Dohrman
- Arthur St. Clair
- Articles of Confederation
- Articles of Confederation (Transcript)
- Athens, Ohio
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- Cadiz, Ohio
- Campus Martius
- Canadian Ohioans
- Catahecassa
- Celeron de Bienville
- Celeron de Bienville's Expedition
- Centinel of the North-Western Territory
- Charles W. Byrd
- Chillicothe, Ohio
- Chippewa Indians
- Christopher Gist
- Cincinnati, Ohio
- Clermont County
- Cleveland, Ohio
- Columbiana County
- Confederation Congress
- Congress Lands
- Connecticut Land Company
- Connecticut Western Reserve
- Coonskin Library
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- Fairfield County
- Federalist Party
- Firelands
- Firestone Country Club
- First Baptist Church (Chillicothe, Ohio)
- First Presbyterian Church of West Union
- First White Wedding in Cleveland
- Fort Defiance
- Fort Detroit
- Fort Duquesne
- Fort Gower Resolutions
- Fort Greene Ville
- Fort Hamilton
- Fort Harmar
- Fort Jefferson
- Fort Laurens
- Fort Loramie
- Fort Miamis
- Fort Necessity
- Fort Recovery
- Fort Sandusky
- Fort Steuben
- Fort Washington
- Francis Dunlavy
- Franklin County
- Franklinton, Ohio
- Freemasons
- Fremont, Ohio
- French and Indian War
- French Era
- French Grant
- French Ohioans
- Frontier Education
- Frontier Women
- Fur Trade
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- La Demoiselle
- Lancaster, Ohio
- Land Between the Miamis
- Land Grants and Sales
- Land Offices
- Land Ordinance of 1785
- Lebanon, Ohio
- Lewis Wetzel
- Lichtenau
- Lisbon, Ohio
- Logan
- Logan's Lament
- Logstown
- Loramie's Store
- Lord Dunmore's War and the Battle of Point Pleasant
- Lorenzo Carter
- Lower Shawnee Town
- Lucas Sullivant
- Lydia Moulton
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- Manasseh Cutler
- Marietta, Ohio
- Mary Campbell
- Mary Campbell Cave
- Mary Jemison
- Massie's Station
- Matthew Elliott
- Matthias Denman
- Maxwell's Code
- Me-sa-sa
- Mennonite Church
- Methodist Church
- Miami Exporting Company
- Miami Indians
- Miami Purchase
- Michael Baldwin
- Michael Cresap
- Michikinikwa
- Montgomery County
- Montgomery, Ohio
- Moravian Church
- Moravian Grant
- Moses Cleaveland
- Munsee Indians