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明尼蘇達 (Minnesota) 成為美國第32
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雖然到達明尼蘇達的交通很方便,但移民到明尼蘇達卻很緩慢,直到19世紀的後半期,東岸的人們開始聽說這裡有許多林地與肥沃的大草原時,才陸陸續續有移民遷徙到這個地方。在1850年至1857年之間,這裡的人口數從6077人快速增加到超過15萬人。在那之前,歐吉布哇 (Ojibwa,也稱作吉普哇Chippewa) 與達科塔 (Dakota,也稱作西奧克斯Sioux) 這兩個部落以這裡為家。對他們來說,各州的疆界是不存在的,所以他們的領土才會延伸到今日的明尼蘇達。西元1600年中期,法國宣稱這是它的領土。這片土地後來在巴黎條約 (1783) 年與路易西安那購買案 (1803) 中,成為美國的領土。

Despite the convenient access to the state, immigration was slow until the second half of the 19th century, when people in the east started to hear about Minnesota's woodlands and fertile prairie. Between 1850 and 1857, the state population skyrocketed from 6,077 to more than 150,000. Long before that, the Ojibwa (Chippewa) and Dakota (Sioux) tribes made the land their home. For them state borders were nonexistent, so their territory extended well beyond what is today Minnesota. The French claimed the territory in the mid-1600s. It became U.S. territory through the Treaty of Paris (1783) and the Louisiana Purchase (1803).
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