Miami (/maÉªËÃ¦mi/; Spanish pronunciation: [maiËami]) is a seaport city at the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Florida.
The Politics of Slavery. 1  The 1816 Indiana Constitution forbade slavery in Article 8, sec. 1 and Article 11, sec. 7. Source: The full text of the 1816 Indiana Constitution is available at âRoad to Indiana Statehood,â The Digital Collections of IUPUI University Library at http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/digitalscholarship/collections/ISC .
On May 7, 1800, an Act of Congress took approximately 259,824 acres of land from the Northwest Territory to form the Indiana Territory. Five years later a portion was taken off to form Michigan Territory. In 1809 more land was taken to form Illinois Territory. On December 11, 1816, Indiana was admitted to the union as the 19th state. The state capital, originally at Corydon, was moved to Indianapolis in 1825.