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 | | Combating the depression at the state level, the Progressives instituted a little New Deal in Wisconsin, which gave stronger bargaining power to labor unions, provided relief from farm indebtedness, undertook public works projects, and passed the first unemployment compensation law in the nation. |
 | | WISCONSIN, one of the East North Central states of the U.S., bordered on the N by Lake Superior and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, on the E by Lake Michigan, on the S by Illinois, and on the W by Iowa and Minnesota. |
 | | Wisconsin’s Indians became increasingly dependent on the trade and were inevitably drawn into the imperial wars of the late 1700s, fighting in the French and Indian War (1754–63) and on the side of the British during the American Revolution. |
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