Michigan's History

    Michigan became a state in the year 1837, and its capital is Lansing. And is known for being serounded the Great Lakes, since Michigan is spilt into two parts because of the Great Lakes there is a Upper Michigan and Lower Michgan but most people say either Upper Peninsula or Lower. Michigan is also know as the Wolverine state for having a lot of wolverines in that area, and for producing iron, copper, iodine, salt, lime, gravel, cement and many other things.  For producing most of those things many people come just for those. Especially the pasties.

  Indian tribes lived in Michigan before the first European named Étienne Brulé in 1618 with some other known explorers such as Jacques Marquette (which is a city in Upper Michigan) Which they made the first permanent settlement made in 1668, when the French were outsed from the territory by Britain following the French and Indian War in 1763. The United States did get most of Michigan's territory until after the Revolutionary War, which reminded the British conflict between Britain and the United States with the Indain allies through the War of 1812.

    In the sevententh century, many French had built trading post, forts and villiages. A famous fort named, Pontchartrain du Detroit (which is where the City of Detroit is located and got its name) When the French were located they could only hunt, fish, trade and talk to a few Indians. In the year 1774, Michigan was handed over to the British; a couple of years after the French and Indian War. During the American Revolutionary War, America conquered Michigan and and the settlements were given to the Americans in the following day.

 In 1783, the war was over and the Treaty of Paris was signed which Michigan passed for the new making of the United States of America. Fours years later Michigan became part of the Northwest Territory, which the British stayed there until the Jay Treaty was created in 1796. During the War of 1812 the British came back and captured Detroit and Fort Mackinak; America did not get Detroit and the fort back until the end of the war in 1815. Michigan grew rapiadly in the 1820's when the Erie Canal was opening up.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Michigan

https://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108228.html