IV. Importance of these rivers to early settlement 2. American settlers seek power sites 3. Their search facilitated by Indian trails 9. The regulating influence of small lakes 22 3. Beginnings of Great Lakes commerce III. Importance of the fisheries 1. Extent of the early fishing industry III. The character of their environment: beauty V. Attitude of the early settlers towards them Crops specially adapted to various densities Obstacles to getting first crops 3. Impulse to improvement of roads. 4. Soldier-settlers 5. Lewis Cass, governor and Indian agent B. Unfavorable reports about Michigan lands... 1. Connection with military bounty lands 2. When and where these surveys were made 3. Probable reasons for character of the reports 6. How these reports reached intending settlers Other reports Cass's criticism of Tiffin's report II. The exploring expedition of 1820 Duration of the prejudice against Michigan XI. Ultimate benefit of relocation of bounty lands 57 V. 3. Its effects complicated with those of the Removal of the Indians Cass's land policy in relation to settlement III. Significance of the rectangular system of survey 1. The credit system and its repeal VIII. Rate of land sales an index to settlement X. The financial crisis of 1837 3. Routes and travel from the East b. Cost of water transportation 2. Territorial roads a. Turnpikes b. Railroads c. Plank roads 3. Township roads |