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IV.
Under United States Rule.
From 1848 to the Present.

On May 20 in the year 1848, our state of Wisconsin was
incorporated as a link in the great chain of the Union. On
June 7 the state officials were sworn in; H. Dodge and J.P.
Walker were appointed senators, the latter, however, being
compelled to resign shortly afterwards, because he acted too.
much in the interests of the South. Immediately after the
incorporation of the state into the Union, a strong influx of
German immigrants became perceptible. Three years earlier an
entire colony of Swiss had settled in New Glarus, and is
still flourishing there today; this colony celebrated its 50-
year jubilee with great pomp in 1895. In the year mentioned
above the attempt was also made to remove the Winnebagos to
Minnesota, and this partially succeeded. Further, the state
university was organized and the free school system was
introduced by law. In the following years the railroad
system underwent a considerable expansion; especially
westward from Milwaukee, those wheels which mean the whole
world pressed further and further forward. The line between
Milwaukee and Waukesha, which was completed in 1851, can

probably be taken as one of the first proper lines carrying