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- Illinois_Country abstract "The Illinois Country (French: Pays des Illinois), also known as Upper Louisiana (French: Haute-Louisiane), was a region in what is now the Midwestern United States that was explored and settled by the French during the 17th and 18th centuries. The terms referred to the entire Upper Mississippi River watershed, though settlement was concentrated in what are now the U.S. states of Illinois, Missouri, and Indiana. First explored in 1673 by the Canadien expedition of Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette, the area was soon claimed by France and became part of Louisiana, together with Lower Louisiana.Up until 1717, the Illinois Country was governed by the French province of Canada, but by order of King Louis XV, the Illinois Country was annexed to the French province of Louisiana, with the northern border being the Illinois River. The territory thus became known as "Upper Louisiana". By the mid-18th century, the major settlements included Cahokia, Kaskaskia, Chartres, Saint Philippe, and Prairie du Rocher, all on the east side of the Mississippi in present-day Illinois; and Ste. Genevieve across the river in Missouri. By the 1720s a local governmental infrastructure was in place, in which the local towns reported to the commandant of Fort de Chartres (near present day Prairie du Rocher, Illinois), who in turn reported to the governor general of Louisiana in New Orleans.Upper Louisiana east of the Mississippi River was ceded to the British in 1763, and the west to the Spanish, after the French and Indian War. Some Canadien settlers remained in the area, while others crossed the Mississippi, forming new settlements such as St. Louis. East of the Mississippi became part of the new British Province of Quebec. However, since its inhabitants had been under the authority of French Canada and then Louisiana for some time, the inhabitants chose to side with the Americans during the American Revolutionary War. Eventually, the western side of the Mississippi was sold to the United States by Napoleon in 1803. French Canadian language and culture continued to exist in the area, with the Missouri French dialect still being spoken into the 20th century.Because of the deforestation that resulted from the cutting of much wood for fuel during the 19th-century age of steamboats, the Mississippi River became more shallow and broad, with more severe flooding and lateral changes in its channel in the stretch from St. Louis to the confluence with the Ohio River. As a consequence, many architectural and archeological resources were lost to flooding and destruction of early French colonial villages originally located near the river, such as Kaskaskia, St. Philippe, and Cahokia, Illinois, and old Ste. Genevieve, Missouri.".
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- Illinois_Country wikiPageID "554924".
- Illinois_Country wikiPageRevisionID "604758823".
- Illinois_Country hasPhotoCollection Illinois_Country.
- Illinois_Country subject Category:Colonial_United_States_(French).
- Illinois_Country subject Category:Colonial_Virginia.
- Illinois_Country subject Category:Former_regions_and_territories_of_the_United_States.
- Illinois_Country subject Category:History_of_the_Midwestern_United_States.
- Illinois_Country subject Category:New_France.
- Illinois_Country subject Category:Pre-statehood_history_of_Illinois.
- Illinois_Country subject Category:Pre-statehood_history_of_Indiana.
- Illinois_Country subject Category:Pre-statehood_history_of_Ohio.
- Illinois_Country type FormerRegionsAndTerritoriesOfTheUnitedStates.
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- Illinois_Country type YagoGeoEntity.
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- Illinois_Country type YagoPermanentlyLocatedEntity.
- Illinois_Country type Place.
- Illinois_Country type PopulatedPlace.
- Illinois_Country type Wikidata:Q532.
- Illinois_Country type Place.
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- Illinois_Country comment "The Illinois Country (French: Pays des Illinois), also known as Upper Louisiana (French: Haute-Louisiane), was a region in what is now the Midwestern United States that was explored and settled by the French during the 17th and 18th centuries. The terms referred to the entire Upper Mississippi River watershed, though settlement was concentrated in what are now the U.S. states of Illinois, Missouri, and Indiana.".
- Illinois_Country label "Illinois Country".
- Illinois_Country label "Pays des Illinois".
- Illinois_Country label "Pays des Illinois".
- Illinois_Country label "イリノイ郡".
- Illinois_Country sameAs Pays_des_Illinois.
- Illinois_Country sameAs Pays_des_Illinois.
- Illinois_Country sameAs イリノイ郡.
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- Illinois_Country sameAs Q2554770.
- Illinois_Country sameAs Q2554770.
- Illinois_Country sameAs Illinois_Country.
- Illinois_Country wasDerivedFrom Illinois_Country?oldid=604758823.
- Illinois_Country depiction Pais_des_Illinois.jpg.
- Illinois_Country isPrimaryTopicOf Illinois_Country.