. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . Northwest deprived the Indians of all hope of English support,^and they ceased to molest settlement seriously until justbefore the War of 1812. The second stage of Territorial government, with a repre-sentative legislature, did not begin until 1799. The next 1 American writers used to assume that the early Indian forays were directlyfomented by the English officials in the Northwest posts. No doubt the pres-ence of English troops there did have some effect upon Indian hopes. But aftera careful examination of recently open
. The story of American democracy, political and industrial . Northwest deprived the Indians of all hope of English support,^and they ceased to molest settlement seriously until justbefore the War of 1812. The second stage of Territorial government, with a repre-sentative legislature, did not begin until 1799. The next 1 American writers used to assume that the early Indian forays were directlyfomented by the English officials in the Northwest posts. No doubt the pres-ence of English troops there did have some effect upon Indian hopes. But aftera careful examination of recently opened sources of information. Professor AndrewMcLaughlin writes: I am glad to be able to state . . that England and herministers can be absolutely acquitted of the charge that they desired to fomentwar in the West. . There was never a time when the orders of the home govern-ment did not explicitly direct that war was to be deprecated, and that the Indianswere to be encouraged to keep the peace. Report of American Historical Associ-ation for 1894, 435 »BOUNDS OF SETTLED AREA IN 1774FRONTIER LINE 1790-FRONTIER LINE 1820 SETTLEMENT AND ORGANIZATION 259 year Congress divided the district into two 1802 the eastern Territory was admitted to the Unionas the State of Ohio. The western district became the Ter-ritory of Indiana. The early Western settlements, we have seen, reproducedthe simplicity of the first settlements on the Atlantic coasta century and a half before; and the progress of The mean-the new communities was influenced greatly by ^^^ °/ *^^the experience of the older ones. But the West- Americanern societies did not merely copy Eastern de- ^storyvelopment. They did not begin just where the Atlanticseaboard settlements did. They started on a differentplane and with greater momentum. The Atlantic frontierhad to work upon European germs. Moving westward,each new frontier was more and more American, at thestart; and soon the older communities were reacted up
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