The Territory of Utah was an organized incorporated territory of the
United States that existed from September 9, 1850, until January 4,
1896, when the final extent of the territory was admitted to the Union
as the State of Utah, the 45th state. At its creation, the Territory
of Utah included all of the present-day State of Utah and portions of
the present-day states of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming.The territory
was organized by an Organic Act of Congress in 1850, on the same day
that the State of California was admitted to the Union and the New
Mexico Territory was added for the southern portion of the former
Mexican land. The creation of the territory was part of the Compromise
of 1850 that sought to preserve the balance of power between slave and
free states. With the exception of a small area around the headwaters
of the Colorado River in present-day Colorado, the United States had
acquired all the land of the territory from Mexico with the Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848.The creation of the Utah Territory was
partially the result of the petition sent by the Mormon pioneers who
had settled in the valley of the Great Salt Lake starting in 1847. The
Mormons, under the leadership of Brigham Young, had petitioned
Congress for entry into the Union as the State of Deseret, with its
capital as Salt Lake City and with proposed borders that encompassed
the entire Great Basin and the watershed of the Colorado River,
including all or part of nine current U.S. states. The Mormon settlers
had drafted a state constitution in 1849 and Deseret had become the de
facto government in the Great Basin by the time of the creation of the
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