As the territory of Indiana grew in population and development, it was divided in 1805 and again in 1809 until, reduced to. After George Rogers Clark and his army captured lands west of the Appalachian Mountains, Virginia Governor Patrick Henry gave Clark and his men land in what is now Indiana. This land was colonized by Clark and his men and they built a small town they named Clarksville, the first American settlement in Indiana. Jeffersonville and New Albany, Indiana, were also founded around this same time.
Slavery in Indiana was prohibited, however, this law did not apply to slaveholders who lived in Indiana before the constitution came into force. The formal use of the word Indiana dates back to 1768, when a commercial company based in Philadelphia gave its land claim in the present-day state of West Virginia the name Indiana after its previous owners, the Iroquois. With the founding in 1906 of the steel town of Gary, halfway between the iron ore deposits of the Mesabi Range of Minnesota, the coal deposits of central Appalachia and the limestone resources of southern Indiana and Illinois and the subsequent development of automobile manufacturing in South Bend, Indiana completed its change from an agricultural to an industrial base. The ambitious development program of Indiana's founders was carried out when Indiana became the fourth largest state in terms of population, as measured by the 1860 census.
Article XIII of the Indiana Constitution of 1851, which sought to exclude African-Americans from settling in the state, was invalidated when the Supreme Court of Indiana ruled in 1866 that it violated the newly approved Thirteenth Amendment to U. Indiana remained unchanged by the advancing ice, leaving plants and animals that could sustain human communities. During this time, many migrants who arrived in Indiana encountered violence against blacks and were forced to relocate due to Indiana's numerous sunset cities. As the territory of Indiana grew in population and development, it was divided in 1805 and again in 1809 until, reduced to its current size and boundaries, it retained the name of Indiana and was admitted to the Union in 1816 as the nineteenth state.
Meanwhile, at the Supreme Court session in August 1796, the case of the Indiana Company was reconvened, but Virginia did not respond, and before it was reconvened, three-quarters of the States had ratified the proposed amendment (in 179, and the much-disputed case disappeared from and, as a result, the Indiana Land Company lost its right and disappeared from sight. Later, ownership of the claim was transferred to Indiana Land Company, the first recorded use of the word Indiana.
