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The attempt to build a canal between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River fails due to malaria.

1830

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The standing water resulting from dredging prompts mass epidemics of malaria, which sickens the workers and prevents them from completing the project. Incidents of malaria impact the westward spread of colonization as high incidents of malaria in Wisconsin and Illinois strike down new settler-colonists.