Louisiana Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Statehood=== {{Main|Admission to the Union|List of U.S. states by date of admission to the Union|Seminole Wars|Adams–Onís Treaty}}Louisiana became the eighteenth U.S. state on April 30, 1812; the Territory of Orleans became the State of Louisiana and the Louisiana Territory was simultaneously renamed the [[Missouri Territory]].<ref>{{cite web|title=A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774–1875|url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=002/llsl002.db&recNum=738|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170105021747/http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=002%2Fllsl002.db&recNum=738|archive-date=January 5, 2017|access-date=December 2, 2019|website=Library of Congress}}</ref> At its creation, the state of Louisiana did not include the area north and east of the Mississippi River known as the [[Florida Parishes]]. On April 14, 1812, Congress had authorized Louisiana to expand its borders to include the Florida Parishes,<ref>{{cite web|title=A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774–1875|url=http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=002/llsl002.db&recNum=745|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202191512/http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=002%2Fllsl002.db&recNum=745|archive-date=February 2, 2017|access-date=December 2, 2019|website=Library of Congress}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=An Act to enlarge the limits of the State of Louisiana |author= |work=en.wikisource.org |date=April 14, 1812 |access-date=October 21, 2021 |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Act_to_enlarge_the_limits_of_the_State_of_Louisiana |archive-date=October 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021231725/https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Act_to_enlarge_the_limits_of_the_State_of_Louisiana |url-status=live }}</ref> but the border change required approval of the state legislature, which it did not give until August 4.<ref>{{cite web |title=Giving the Assent of the Legislature to an Enlargement of the Limits of the State of Louisiana |author= |work=en.wikisource.org |date=August 4, 1812 |access-date=October 21, 2021 |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Giving_the_Assent_of_the_Legislature_to_an_Enlargement_of_the_Limits_of_the_State_of_Louisiana |archive-date=October 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021231724/https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Giving_the_Assent_of_the_Legislature_to_an_Enlargement_of_the_Limits_of_the_State_of_Louisiana |url-status=live }}</ref> For the roughly three months in between, the northern border of eastern Louisiana was the course of [[Bayou Manchac]] and the middle of [[Lake Maurepas]] and [[Lake Pontchartrain]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Admission of the State of Louisiana |author=United States Congress |work=en.wikisource.org |date=April 8, 1812 |access-date=October 21, 2021 |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Admission_of_the_State_of_Louisiana_(act) |archive-date=October 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021231712/https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Admission_of_the_State_of_Louisiana_(act) |url-status=live }}</ref> From 1824 to 1861, Louisiana moved from a political system based on personality and ethnicity to a distinct two-party system, with Democrats competing first against [[Whig Party (United States)|Whigs]], then [[Know Nothing]]s, and finally only other [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]].<ref>{{cite book|first = John M.|last = Sacher|title =A Perfect War of Politics: Parties, Politicians, and Democracy in Louisiana, 1824–1861|isbn = 9780807128480|publisher = Louisiana State University Press|date = 2003}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page