A history of the American nation . burdens of a disagreeable, strong-handedgovernment. They did not see that a good, efficient govern-ment might protect reasonable liberty. And then, too, afterthe war was over, when the time of recuperation was at hand,the land needed the Loyalists that had been banished or thathad gone to England or over to Canada in search of new homesfor themselves. For we must remind ourselves again that theRevolution was in many ways a civil war; and the task, there-fore, of readjustment, when peace came, was naturally fraughtwith the difficulties that sprang from interna
A history of the American nation . burdens of a disagreeable, strong-handedgovernment. They did not see that a good, efficient govern-ment might protect reasonable liberty. And then, too, afterthe war was over, when the time of recuperation was at hand,the land needed the Loyalists that had been banished or thathad gone to England or over to Canada in search of new homesfor themselves. For we must remind ourselves again that theRevolution was in many ways a civil war; and the task, there-fore, of readjustment, when peace came, was naturally fraughtwith the difficulties that sprang from internal confusion andsocial overturning. Before studying thesteps that were taken toorganize anew govern-ment and es-tablish a permanent union,we must turn aside to no-tice the settlement of con-flicting claims of the Statesto Western lands. Evenbefore the independence ofthe United States had beenacknowledged by GreatBritain there had arisenmuch discussion over theownership of the territorywest of the mountains. Six Western The Northwest Territory Showing the States afterward carvedfrom it of the States—New Hampshire, Rhode Island, New Jersey,Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland—could set up noclaim to this territory. Their boundaries were defined. Theother States claimed lands stretching west to the MississippiRiver. South of the Ohio there was no good ground for muchdispute. Each State might take possession of the lands lyingdirectly to the west; but to the lands north of the Ohio there wereconflicting claims. Massachusetts and Connecticut based theirtitles on their old charters. Each claimed a strip of land extend- 186 HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN NATION ing through the Northwest. The land claimed by Massachu-setts formed a large portion of what is now Wisconsin and thelower peninsula of Michigan. The Connecticut strip waschiefly in what is now northern Ohio, Indiana, and York set up a title to a vast territory in the West on theground that she had receive
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