The Toledo Strip is in the picture, but the reason this got fucked up in the first place is actually Indiana just demanding Congress give them access to Lake Michigan, a couple decades before the war. If Indiana didn’t have access to the lake federally recognized, the Toledo Strip dispute would have extended all the way across Michigan’s border, because it was based on competing surveys.
EDIT: I should clarify for everyone who isn’t in the picture, Indiana is the lower left state that touches the lake in its northwest corner. Ohio, bottom right, actually ‘won’ the war and contains the Toledo Strip, and that actually made the jagged edge less fucked up, but Michigan got a giant mountain full of iron as a compromise, which is why all of America’s early car manufacturers ended up in Detroit, making it a city.
The Toledo Strip is in the picture, but the reason this got fucked up in the first place is actually Indiana just demanding Congress give them access to Lake Michigan, a couple decades before the war. If Indiana didn’t have access to the lake federally recognized, the Toledo Strip dispute would have extended all the way across Michigan’s border, because it was based on competing surveys.
EDIT: I should clarify for everyone who isn’t in the picture, Indiana is the lower left state that touches the lake in its northwest corner. Ohio, bottom right, actually ‘won’ the war and contains the Toledo Strip, and that actually made the jagged edge less fucked up, but Michigan got a giant mountain full of iron as a compromise, which is why all of America’s early car manufacturers ended up in Detroit, making it a city.
And then Indiana ruined that lake access by slapping Gary there