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Tweed Thornton
@Tweed_Thornton
CEO at Four Star Initiatives. Community Builder. Special Events Planner. Podcast Producer.
Oct 23, 2018 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
In 1817, Illinois wanted to become a state.

Indiana had become a state in 1816. Mississippi had become a state that year. Missouri was getting its paperwork together. And the frontier folk in Illinois weren’t about to let Missouri beat them out.

There was just one problem... The population of the Illinois territory had not reached 60,000 as suggested for statehood by the Northwest Ordinance.

They didn’t even have 35,000 people, the number of people for Congressional representation at the time.

So? What to do? Gotta beat Missouri.