Utah Territory in 1851

Utah Territory in 1861, after the organization of the Nevada Territory

Utah Territory in 1868

The Territory of Utah was an organized territory of the United States of America that existed from its organic act on 1850-09-09, until the admission of the State of Utah to the Union on 1896-01-04. Territories of the United States are one type of political division of the United States, administered by the U The United States of America —commonly referred to as the For the game see 1850 (board game. 1850 ( MDCCCL) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link Events 1000 - Battle of Svolder, Viking Age. 1379 - Treaty of Neuberg, splitting the Austrian The State of Utah (ˈjuːtɔː or) is a western state of the United States. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Year 1896 ( MDCCCXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Events 46 BC - Titus Labienus defeats Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina.

The territory was organized by an organic act of Congress in 1850, on the same day that the State of California was admitted to the Union. The United States Congress is the bicameral Legislature of the federal government of the United States of America, consisting of two houses For the game see 1850 (board game. 1850 ( MDCCCL) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. The creation of the territory was part of the Compromise of 1850 that sought to preserve the balance of power between slave and free states. The Compromise of 1850 was a series of bills aimed at resolving the territorial and slavery controversies arising from the Mexican-American War (1846&ndash1848 With the exception of a small area around the headwaters of the Colorado River in present-day Colorado which had been acquired from Spain with the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819, the United States had acquired all the land of the territory from Mexico with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848. The Colorado River (' Aha Kwahwat in Mojave) is a River in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately The State of Colorado ( or chiefly by nonresidents) is a state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States of America. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. The Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819 settled a border dispute in North America between the United States and Spain. Year 1819 ( MDCCCXIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar in the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ( Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo in Spanish) is the Peace treaty, largely dictated by the United States to Year 1848 ( MDCCCXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap

The creation of the Utah Territory was partially the result of the petition sent by the Mormon pioneers who had settled in the valley of the Great Salt Lake starting in 1847. The Mormon pioneers were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as Latter-day Saints, who migrated across the United Salt Lake Valley is a 500 square mile valley in Salt Lake County in the north-central portion of the U Year 1847 ( MDCCCXLVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common The Mormons, under the leadership of Brigham Young, had petitioned Congress for entry into the Union as the State of Deseret, with its capital as Salt Lake City and with proposed borders that encompassed the entire Great Basin and the watershed of the Colorado River, including all or part of nine current U. Brigham Young (June 1 1801 &ndash August 29 1877 was an American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement. The State of Deseret was a provisional state of the United States, proposed in 1849 by Mormon settlers in Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City is the Capital and the most populous city of the U The Great Basin is a large arid region of the western United States. The Colorado River (' Aha Kwahwat in Mojave) is a River in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, approximately S. states. The Mormon settlers had drafted a state constitution in 1849 and Deseret had become the de facto government in the Great Basin by the time of the creation of the Utah Territory. Year 1849 ( MDCCCXLIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common

Following the organization of the territory, Young was inaugurated as its first governor on February 9, 1851. Events 474 - Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. 1851 ( MDCCCLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year In the first session of the territorial legislature in October, the legislature adopted all the laws and ordinances previously enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Deseret.

Mormon governance in the territory was regarded as controversial by much of the rest of the nation, partly fed by continuing lurid newspaper depictions of the polygamy practiced by the settlers, which itself had been part of the cause of their flight across the country to the Great Salt Lake basin after early attempts to found settlements farther east. The term polygamy (a Greek word meaning "the practice of multiple marriage" is used in related ways in Social anthropology, Sociobiology, and Great Salt Lake, located in the northern part of the US state of Utah, is the largest salt lake in the western hemisphere the fourth-largest terminal

Although the Mormons were the majority in the Great Salt Lake basin, the western area of the territory began to attract many non-Mormon settlers. In 1861, partly as a result of this, the Nevada Territory was created out of the western part of the territory. Year 1861 ( MDCCCLXI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Nevada Territory was a historic Organized territory of the United States from March 2, 1861 until October 31, 1864 In the same year, a large portion the eastern area of the territory was reorganized as part of the newly created Colorado Territory. For the western film see Colorado Territory (film. The Territory of Colorado was an Organized territory of the United States of

The arrival of the railroad, simultaneously from California and the east in 1869, was not regarded as especially beneficial by the Mormons who governed the territory. Year 1869 ( MDCCCLXIX) is a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year The ceremony of the driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit to complete the transcontinental railroad was boycotted by the territory officials, who were wary of the encroachment of the outside world into the basin of the Great Salt Lake. A " golden spike " was the last ceremonial spike driven specifically to mark the completion of a railroad line Promontory is a location in Box Elder County, Utah, United States, centered approximately at, at an Elevation of 1494 meters (4902 This article refers to a railroad built in the United States between Omaha and Sacramento completed in 1869

The controversies stirred by the Mormon religion's dominance of the territory is regarded as the primary reason behind the long delay of 46 years between the organization of the territory and its admission to the Union in 1896 as the State of Utah, long after the admission of territories created after it. Year 1896 ( MDCCCXCVI) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year The State of Utah (ˈjuːtɔː or) is a western state of the United States. In contrast, the Nevada Territory, although more sparsely populated, was admitted to the Union in 1864, only three years after its formation, largely as a consequence of the Union's desire to consolidate its hold on the silver mines in the territory. Year 1864 ( MDCCCLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Colorado was admitted in 1876. Year 1876 ( MDCCCLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year

See also

• Historic regions of the United States
• History of Utah
• Members of the Utah Territorial Legislature
• Morrisite War
• Runaway Officials of 1851
• State of Utah
• Territory of Deseret
• Territory of Nevada
• Utah Territorial Statehouse
• Utah War

References

External links

• Utah in 1851, with the text of the 1850 Act of Congress to Establish the Territory of Utah, Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
• Utah's Role in the Transcontinental Railroad, Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum