In the Heart of the Nation
What is defined as "level or gently rolling land covered in grasses, with few trees"?
What is a prairie?
Which of the 5 Great Lakes IS NOT located in the Midwest?
What is Lake Ontario?
Beyond farming, what other resource is important to the economy of the Midwest?
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What state is the nation's top egg-producing state?
What is mining?
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What is Iowa?
What are religious people who set up settlements to teach religion?
What are missionaries?
Who invented the steel plow in 1837?
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What is the nickname of Detroit?
Who is John Deere?
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What is the Motor City?
What two major mountain ranges does the Midwest lie between?
What are the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains?
What river connects the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean?
What is the St. Lawrence River?
What does arable mean?
What is "capable of growing crops"?
What is a major distinction between how Eastern and Western Plains Native Americans got their food?
What is Eastern Plains farmed in river valleys and Western Plains were nomads?
Farmers came from the East as early as the 1770s, in what area did they first settle?
What is the Ohio River Valley?
What 2 major changes to transportation in the 1800s helped the Midwest develop?
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In what year was the interstate highway system developed?
What is the steamboat and the transcontinental railroad?
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What is 1956?
What three major rivers flow through the Midwest?
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What are their lengths?
What are the Mississippi, the Missouri, and the Ohio Rivers?
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What are 2,350 miles (Mississippi), 2,315 miles (Missouri), and 981 miles (Ohio)?
What three major resources are mined in the region?
What is coal, iron, and limestone?
In 1787, the ___________________ was passed by Congress, it split Midwestern territory into future states and did not permit slavery.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
What was the FULL name of the African American pioneer who established what would become Chicago?
Who was Jean Baptiste Point DuSable?
What was the largest Native American city in the United States, and in what modern state would it be located?
What is Cahokia, and it was located in Illinois?
What two parts is the Midwest split into, and in what direction (North, South, East, West) do they lie?
What are the Great Plains to the west, and the Central Plains to the east?
What kinds of crops are the two regions known for growing? Provide two for each.
Provide 5 European nations that were major sources of immigration to the Midwest region in the mid-1800s.
What are Germany, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, and Hungary?
These three cities (Chicago, Minneapolis, and Cleveland) include what hubs for arts and culture?
What is the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Guthrie Theater, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
What 12 states make up the Midwest?
What are North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio?
What 4 major reasons account for the Midwest's ability to have abundant farmland?
What is level ground, nutrient rich soil, good rainfall as well as rivers and wells, and long growing seasons with lots of sunshine?
What 4 major Midwestern cities began as trading posts?
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In what year were they each founded, from earliest to latest?
What is Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, and Cleveland?
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What are 1701 (Detroit), 1764 (St. Louis), 1784 (Chicago), and 1786 (Cleveland)?