. Rise of the new West, 1819-1829. n forts at Mackinac,Prairie du Chien, and Chicago, tried to incorporatein the treaty a provision for a neutral belt, or bufferstate, of Indian territory in the northwest, toseparate Canada from the United States. Taughtby this experience, the United States, at the close ofthe war, passed laws excluding aliens from conduct-ing the Indian trade, and erected forts at GreenBay, Prairie du Chien, Chicago, and Fort order of Secretary of War Calhoun, GovernorCass, of Michigan, made an expedition in 1820along the south shore of Lake Superior into Minne-so

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. Rise of the new West, 1819-1829. n forts at Mackinac,Prairie du Chien, and Chicago, tried to incorporatein the treaty a provision for a neutral belt, or bufferstate, of Indian territory in the northwest, toseparate Canada from the United States. Taughtby this experience, the United States, at the close ofthe war, passed laws excluding aliens from conduct-ing the Indian trade, and erected forts at GreenBay, Prairie du Chien, Chicago, and Fort order of Secretary of War Calhoun, GovernorCass, of Michigan, made an expedition in 1820along the south shore of Lake Superior into Minne-sota, to compel the removal of English flags and toreplace British by American influence.^ At thesame time, an expedition under Major Long visited * Turner, Character and Influence of the Fur Trade in Wis., inWis. Hist. Soc, Transactions, 1889. Cf. Babcock, Am. Nationality {Am. Nation, XIII.). chap. x. ^Schoolcraft, Hist, of Indian Tribes, VI., 422; ibid., Narra-tive Journal; Dotys Journal, in Wis. Hist. Soc, Collections,XIII.,

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