Geography of the Midwest
A funnel-shaped, spinning windstorm.
What is a tornado?
Change their ways of life.
What is adapt?
Large Rafts made of boards tied together.
What is a flatboat?
The 16th President of the United States issued the emancipation proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The capital of North Dakota is ...
What is Bismark?
A long period of little or no rain.
What is a drought?
The early settlers used this natural resource to build their homes.
What is sod?
The movement of people from one place to another.
What is migration?
He opened one of the largest stockyards in Abilene, Kansas.
Who is Joseph McCoy?
This state has Jefferson City as its capital.
What is Missouri?
A rock that has more or more kinds of minerals that are plentiful in the Midwest.
What is Ore or Iron Ore?
A set of laws described how the territory's government worked.
What is an Ordinance?
A person who starts a new business.
What is an entrepreneur?
This man invented the assembly line and manufactured cars in Detroit, MI.
Who is Henry Ford?
Pierre is the capital of this state ( abbreviation only )
What is SD?
The eastern part of the Interior Plains known as the "sea of grass".
What are the Central Plains?
A person who is the first to settle a place.
What is a pioneer?
A place where livestock is bought, sold, and held before shipment.
What is a Stockyard?
This person started a manufacturing company in Indianapolis, IN that made beauty products for women.
Who is Madame C.J. Walker?
The capital city of Kansas is ...
What is Topeka?
This western part of the plains is drier and the soil is not as good for farming.
What are the Great Plains?
The ability to do everything for yourself.
What is self-sufficient?
A way of manufacturing products more quickly and cheaply by using machines.
What is mass production?
This man was a famous author, who wrote The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Who is Samuel Clemens also known as Mark Twain?
Des Moines is the capital city of ...
What is Iowa?