Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Utah Territory

Index Utah Territory

The Territory of Utah was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from September 9, 1850, until January 4, 1896, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Utah, the 45th state. [1]

58 relations: Alta California, American Civil War, Breckenridge, Colorado, Brigham Young, Caleb Walton West, California, Central Pacific Railroad, Colorado, Colorado River, Colorado Territory, Compromise of 1850, Comstock Lode, Dakota Territory, Fillmore, Utah, First Transcontinental Railroad, Great Basin, Great Salt Lake, Historic regions of the United States, Historical coats of arms of the U.S. states from 1876, History of slavery in Utah, History of Utah, Idaho Territory, Jefferson Territory, Latter Day Saint movement, List of Justices of the Utah Supreme Court, Mexican Cession, Mexican–American War, Mexico, Mormon pioneers, Morrisite War, Mountain Meadows Massacre, Nataqua Territory, Nebraska Territory, Nevada, Nevada Territory, New Mexico Territory, Organic act, Organized incorporated territories of the United States, Paiute War, Pike's Peak Gold Rush, Polygamy, Runaway Officials of 1851, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake Valley, Santa Fe de Nuevo México, State of Deseret, Territorial evolution of the United States, Territories of the United States, The Californias, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ..., United States, United States Congress, Utah, Utah in the American Civil War, Utah Territorial Statehouse, Utah War, Wyoming, Wyoming Territory. Expand index (8 more) »

Alta California

Alta California (Upper California), founded in 1769 by Gaspar de Portolà, was a polity of New Spain, and, after the Mexican War of Independence in 1822, a territory of Mexico.

New!!: Utah Territory and Alta California · See more »

American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

New!!: Utah Territory and American Civil War · See more »

Breckenridge, Colorado

The Town of Breckenridge is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous municipality of Summit County, Colorado, United States.

New!!: Utah Territory and Breckenridge, Colorado · See more »

Brigham Young

Brigham Young (June 1, 1801August 29, 1877) was an American religious leader, politician, and settler.

New!!: Utah Territory and Brigham Young · See more »

Caleb Walton West

Caleb Walton West (May 25, 1844 – January 25, 1909) was an American politician and Governor of Utah Territory twice, 1886–1888 and 1893–1896.

New!!: Utah Territory and Caleb Walton West · See more »

California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

New!!: Utah Territory and California · See more »

Central Pacific Railroad

The Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) was a rail route between California and Utah built eastwards from the West Coast in the 1860s, to complete the western part of the "First Transcontinental Railroad" in North America.

New!!: Utah Territory and Central Pacific Railroad · See more »

Colorado

Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.

New!!: Utah Territory and Colorado · See more »

Colorado River

The Colorado River is one of the principal rivers of the Southwestern United States and northern Mexico (the other being the Rio Grande).

New!!: Utah Territory and Colorado River · See more »

Colorado Territory

The Territory of Colorado was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from February 28, 1861, until August 1, 1876, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Colorado.

New!!: Utah Territory and Colorado Territory · See more »

Compromise of 1850

The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired during the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).

New!!: Utah Territory and Compromise of 1850 · See more »

Comstock Lode

The Comstock Lode is a lode of silver ore located under the eastern slope of Mount Davidson, a peak in the Virginia Range in Nevada (then western Utah Territory).

New!!: Utah Territory and Comstock Lode · See more »

Dakota Territory

The Territory of Dakota was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, until November 2, 1889, when the final extent of the reduced territory was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North and South Dakota.

New!!: Utah Territory and Dakota Territory · See more »

Fillmore, Utah

Fillmore is a city in Millard County, Utah, United States.

New!!: Utah Territory and Fillmore, Utah · See more »

First Transcontinental Railroad

The First Transcontinental Railroad (also called the Great Transcontinental Railroad, known originally as the "Pacific Railroad" and later as the "Overland Route") was a continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast at the Oakland Long Wharf on San Francisco Bay.

New!!: Utah Territory and First Transcontinental Railroad · See more »

Great Basin

The Great Basin is the largest area of contiguous endorheic watersheds in North America.

New!!: Utah Territory and Great Basin · See more »

Great Salt Lake

The Great Salt Lake, located in the northern part of the U.S. state of Utah, is the largest salt water lake in the Western Hemisphere, and the eighth-largest terminal lake in the world.

New!!: Utah Territory and Great Salt Lake · See more »

Historic regions of the United States

This is a list of historic regions of the United States that existed at some time during the territorial evolution of the United States and its overseas possessions, from the colonial era to the present day.

New!!: Utah Territory and Historic regions of the United States · See more »

Historical coats of arms of the U.S. states from 1876

Historical coats of arms of the U.S. states date back to the admission of the first states to the Union.

New!!: Utah Territory and Historical coats of arms of the U.S. states from 1876 · See more »

History of slavery in Utah

This article treats the topic of slavery as it occurred in the borders of what is now the state of Utah.

New!!: Utah Territory and History of slavery in Utah · See more »

History of Utah

The History of Utah is an examination of the human history and social activity within the state of Utah located in the western United States.

New!!: Utah Territory and History of Utah · See more »

Idaho Territory

The Territory of Idaho was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 3, 1863, until July 3, 1890, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as Idaho.

New!!: Utah Territory and Idaho Territory · See more »

Jefferson Territory

The Territory of Jefferson was an extralegal and unrecognized United States territory that existed from October 24, 1859 until the creation of the Colorado Territory on February 28, 1861.

New!!: Utah Territory and Jefferson Territory · See more »

Latter Day Saint movement

The Latter Day Saint movement (also called the LDS movement, LDS restorationist movement, or Smith–Rigdon movement) is the collection of independent church groups that trace their origins to a Christian primitivist movement founded by Joseph Smith in the late 1820s.

New!!: Utah Territory and Latter Day Saint movement · See more »

List of Justices of the Utah Supreme Court

No description.

New!!: Utah Territory and List of Justices of the Utah Supreme Court · See more »

Mexican Cession

The Mexican Cession is the region in the modern-day southwestern United States that Mexico ceded to the U.S. in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 after the Mexican–American War.

New!!: Utah Territory and Mexican Cession · See more »

Mexican–American War

The Mexican–American War, also known as the Mexican War in the United States and in Mexico as the American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States (Mexico) from 1846 to 1848.

New!!: Utah Territory and Mexican–American War · See more »

Mexico

Mexico (México; Mēxihco), officially called the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos) is a federal republic in the southern portion of North America.

New!!: Utah Territory and Mexico · See more »

Mormon pioneers

The Mormon pioneers were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), also known as Latter-day Saints, who migrated across the United States from the Midwest to the Salt Lake Valley in what is today the U.S. state of Utah.

New!!: Utah Territory and Mormon pioneers · See more »

Morrisite War

The Morrisite War was a skirmish between a Latter Day Saint sect known as the "Morrisites" and the Utah territorial government.

New!!: Utah Territory and Morrisite War · See more »

Mountain Meadows Massacre

The Mountain Meadows Massacre was a series of attacks on the Baker–Fancher emigrant wagon train, at Mountain Meadows in southern Utah.

New!!: Utah Territory and Mountain Meadows Massacre · See more »

Nataqua Territory

The Nataqua Territory was a short-lived, unofficial territory of the United States.

New!!: Utah Territory and Nataqua Territory · See more »

Nebraska Territory

The Territory of Nebraska was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 30, 1854, until March 1, 1867, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Nebraska.

New!!: Utah Territory and Nebraska Territory · See more »

Nevada

Nevada (see pronunciations) is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America.

New!!: Utah Territory and Nevada · See more »

Nevada Territory

The Territory of Nevada was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March 2, 1861, until October 31, 1864, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Nevada.

New!!: Utah Territory and Nevada Territory · See more »

New Mexico Territory

The Territory of New Mexico was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed (with varying boundaries) from September 9, 1850, until January 6, 1912, when the remaining extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of New Mexico, making it the longest-lived organized incorporated territory of the United States, lasting approximately 62 years.

New!!: Utah Territory and New Mexico Territory · See more »

Organic act

In United States law, an organic act is an act of the United States Congress that establishes a territory of the United States and specifies how it is to be governed, or an agency to manage certain federal lands.

New!!: Utah Territory and Organic act · See more »

Organized incorporated territories of the United States

Organized incorporated territories are territories of the United States that are both incorporated (part of the United States proper) and organized (having an organized government authorized by an Organic Act passed by the U.S. Congress, usually consisting of a territorial legislature, territorial governor, and a basic judicial system).

New!!: Utah Territory and Organized incorporated territories of the United States · See more »

Paiute War

The Paiute War, also known as the Pyramid Lake War, Washoe Indian War and the Pah Ute War, was an armed conflict between Northern Paiutes allied with the Shoshone and the Bannock against intruding settlers from the United States, supported by military forces.

New!!: Utah Territory and Paiute War · See more »

Pike's Peak Gold Rush

The Pike's Peak Gold Rush (later known as the Colorado Gold Rush) was the boom in gold prospecting and mining in the Pike's Peak Country of western Kansas Territory and southwestern Nebraska Territory of the United States that began in July 1858 and lasted until roughly the creation of the Colorado Territory on February 28, 1861.

New!!: Utah Territory and Pike's Peak Gold Rush · See more »

Polygamy

Polygamy (from Late Greek πολυγαμία, polygamía, "state of marriage to many spouses") is the practice of marrying multiple spouses.

New!!: Utah Territory and Polygamy · See more »

Runaway Officials of 1851

The "Runaway Officials of 1851" were a group of three federal officers, Judge Perry Brocchus, Judge Lemuel Brandenbury, and Territorial Secretary Broughton Harris, who were appointed to Utah Territory by President Millard Fillmore in 1851.

New!!: Utah Territory and Runaway Officials of 1851 · See more »

Salt Lake City

Salt Lake City (often shortened to Salt Lake and abbreviated as SLC) is the capital and the most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Utah.

New!!: Utah Territory and Salt Lake City · See more »

Salt Lake Valley

Salt Lake Valley is a valley in Salt Lake County in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of Utah.

New!!: Utah Territory and Salt Lake Valley · See more »

Santa Fe de Nuevo México

Santa Fe de Nuevo México (Santa Fe of New Mexico; shortened as Nuevo México or Nuevo Méjico, and translated as New Mexico) was a province of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, and later a territory of independent Mexico.

New!!: Utah Territory and Santa Fe de Nuevo México · See more »

State of Deseret

The State of Deseret was a provisional state of the United States, proposed in 1849 by settlers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Salt Lake City.

New!!: Utah Territory and State of Deseret · See more »

Territorial evolution of the United States

The United States of America was created on July 4, 1776, with the declaration of independence of thirteen British colonies.

New!!: Utah Territory and Territorial evolution of the United States · See more »

Territories of the United States

Territories of the United States are sub-national administrative divisions directly overseen by the United States (U.S.) federal government.

New!!: Utah Territory and Territories of the United States · See more »

The Californias

The Californias (Spanish: Las Californias), occasionally known as the Three Californias or Two Californias, are a region of North America, shared between Mexico and the United States of America, consisting of the U.S. state of California and the Mexican states of Baja California and Baja California Sur.

New!!: Utah Territory and The Californias · See more »

Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo in Spanish), officially titled the Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits and Settlement between the United States of America and the Mexican Republic, is the peace treaty signed on February 2, 1848, in the Villa de Guadalupe Hidalgo (now a neighborhood of Mexico City) between the United States and Mexico that ended the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).

New!!: Utah Territory and Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo · See more »

United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

New!!: Utah Territory and United States · See more »

United States Congress

The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States.

New!!: Utah Territory and United States Congress · See more »

Utah

Utah is a state in the western United States.

New!!: Utah Territory and Utah · See more »

Utah in the American Civil War

The Utah Territory (September 9, 1850 - January 4, 1896) during the American Civil War was far from the main operational theaters of war, but still played a role in the disposition of the United States Army, drawing manpower away from the volunteer forces and providing its share of administrative headaches for the Lincoln Administration.

New!!: Utah Territory and Utah in the American Civil War · See more »

Utah Territorial Statehouse

The Utah Territorial Statehouse, officially Territorial Statehouse State Park Museum, is a state park in Fillmore, Utah, preserving the original seat of government for the Utah Territory.

New!!: Utah Territory and Utah Territorial Statehouse · See more »

Utah War

The Utah War (1857–1858), also known as the Utah Expedition, Utah Campaign, Buchanan's Blunder,Poll, Richard D., and Ralph W. Hansen.

New!!: Utah Territory and Utah War · See more »

Wyoming

Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the western United States.

New!!: Utah Territory and Wyoming · See more »

Wyoming Territory

The Territory of Wyoming was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from July 25, 1868, until July 10, 1890, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Wyoming.

New!!: Utah Territory and Wyoming Territory · See more »

Redirects here:

Territorial Utah, Territory of Utah, Utah territory.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Territory

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »