![]() Congress prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territory which presaged Ohio and the five states of the Territory entering the Union as free states. American settlement in the Ohio Country came after the American Revolutionary War and the formation of the United States, with its takeover of former British territory. The Native Americans had their own extensive trading networks across the continent before the Europeans arrived. īy the mid-18th century, a few American and French fur traders engaged historic Native American tribes in present-day Ohio in the fur trade. Human history in Ohio began a few millennia after formation of the Bering land bridge about 14,500BCE - see Clovis Culture. Other cultures not generally identified as 'Indians', including the Hopewell 'mound builders', preceded them. Before that, Native Americans speaking Algonquin languages had inhabited Ohio and the central midwestern United States for hundreds of years until displaced by the Iroquois in the latter part of the 17th century. The recorded history of Ohio began in the late 17th century when French explorers from Canada reached the Ohio River, from which the 'Ohio Country' took its name, a river the Iroquois called O-y-o, 'great river'. The history of Ohio as a state began when the Northwest Territory was divided in 1800 and the remainder reorganized for admission to the union in March, 1803 as the 17th state of the United States. ![]()
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