Great Lakes

The Webster Ashburton Treaty settled the U.S.-Canada border dispute, especially in Maine, and clarified boundaries around the Great Lakes. It also established extradition rules for serious crimes and committed both nations to patrol the African coast to suppress the slave trade. The treaty affirmed…

<p><span class="deck"> The glacier that covered most of North America scarred the land, turned rivers in their courses, and deeply influenced our history</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> CONSERVATION</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">A FAMOUS HISTORIAN RECALLS THE COUNTRY WHERE HE GREW UP</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">"With half the western world at stake,</span> <span class="typestyle"> See Perry on the middle lake.”</span> <span class="typestyle"> —Nineteenth-century ballad</span> </span></p>