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 Background: Milwaukee, according to TMJ4 News (2013, was established at the site whereby

the Milwaukee, Kinnickinnic, and Menomonee rivers flow into Lake Michigan.

 Milwaukee Waterways commenced as a Great Lakes port in mid-1835, after the arrival of the

first commercial shipment vessel.

 Attention: The Laurentide ice sheet, around twelve thousand 12,000 years ago, started to

withdraw from the southeast as well as northern Wisconsin (American Water works, 2016). 

 Thesis: This essay offers an overview of Milwaukee Waterways.

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 Topic Sentence: Milwaukee waterways' past starts with the individuals who understood its

importance and employed it in sustaining their living.

 Supporting Detail One: Numerous Native Americas called the area home for many years

besides building communities around the river. 

 Supporting Detail Two: The water became essential for agricultural activities and hunting

because several communities used that opportunity to grow agricultural staples, including maize,

squash, and beans, which needed irrigation systems (Disaster Documentaries, 2016).

Body Paragraph Two

 Topic Sentence: Although the national administration’s guidelines towards Native American

people frequently displaced people from their native land, this was never often the situation or

condition.

 Supporting Detail One: Many Wisconsin communities came to the consensus that permitted

them to live within the state, besides being given reservations for their societies (Gurda, 2018).
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 Supporting Detail Two: Their continued availability within the region echoes the construction

and development of the town’s name, Milwaukee. 

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 Topic Sentence: As the town industrialized into a main Great Lakes business center in the 19th

era, the Waterway became crucial to Milwaukee’s thriving businesses (Milwauk County

Historical Society, 2021).

 Supporting Detail One: Milwaukee inhabitants had a small brewing business by the 1840s;

however, they advanced the brewing industry when Polish and German immigrants settled in the

city (World Population Review, 2019).

 Supporting Detail Two: By early 1856, as Nowakowski (2019), argues, the city had more than

twenty breweries, and after a couple of years, the city had more than forty breweries.

Body Paragraph Four

 Topic Sentence: Milwaukee’s rapid industrial development and expansion in the mid-19th era

introduced alarming environmental consequences for the Waterway.

 Supporting Detail One: People started to dump mills, tanners, manufactories, brewers, and

meatpacking plants in The Milwaukee River (Raney, 2018).

 Supporting Detail Two: With Milwaukee's quick-growing residents, industries and populations

filled the Milwaukee Waterways with human as well as industrial waste products.

Body Paragraph Five

 Topic Sentence: In the 21st century, Milwaukee’s Waterways have progressively been restored,

thus becoming clean and friendly to humans and wildlife animals and creatures (Trousil, 2018).

 Supporting Detail One: Nevertheless, years ago, before the cleaning exercises and programs

commenced, manufacturers used to dumb wastes into the rivers.

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 Supporting Detail Two: The level of toxicity in the Waterways forced The American

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to design the Milwaukee Inlet as “a region of concern”

(Milwauk County Historical Society, 2021).

Body Paragraph Six

 Topic Sentence: Today, the Milwaukee Waterways are a hub of activities for tourists and

Milwaukee communities.

 Supporting Detail One: Different riverboat corporations provide the city’s “booze cruises

together with scenic tours that have become prevalent for work proceedings and family as well

as school meetings.

 Supporting Detail Two: Rentals and Riverwalk Boat Tours generate a city brewery expedition

through the Milwaukee Waterways.

Conclusion

 Topic Sentence: Although the national administration’s guidelines towards Native American

people frequently displaced people from their native land, this was never often the situation or

condition.

 Supporting Detail One: Many Wisconsin communities came to the consensus that permitted

them to live within the state, besides being given reservations for their societies.

 Supporting Detail Two: As the town industrialized into a main Great Lakes business center in

the 19th era, the Waterway became crucial to Milwaukee’s thriving businesses.
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