Name the area in the Midwest that gets lake effect snow.
What is the area near the Great Lakes?
100
Name the person who made the automobile on an assembly line.
Who is Henry Ford?
100
Name 2 ways the Native Americans used the buffalo.
What is for shelter (tepees), tools, clothing, food, and jewlery?
200
What is an area of flat or rolling land covered mostly with wildflowers or grasses?
What is a prairie?
200
What city did they first used an assembly line to make the automobile?
What is Detroit?
200
Name the person who invented the steamboat.
Who is Robert Fulton?
200
What provided an easier way for settlers to reach the Midwest?
What is the railroad?
300
What is a region where a plant or animal naturally grows or lives?
What is a habitat?
300
Where did the Sioux live?
What are the Central Plains?
300
This person lived in the Midwest as a child and later became the 16th President.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
What did the Sioux use to make their houses out of?
What is sod?
400
What is a long period of little or no rain?
What is a drought?
400
Name 2 of the 3 bodies of water that are boundaries for the Northwest Territory.
What are the Mississippi River, Ohio River, and Great Lakes?
400
This Indian Chief fought the settlers to try to keep his land.
Who is Tecumseh?
400
Mass production things cheaper and faster.
What did they use to do this?
What are machines?
500
What is a person who sets up a business that is new?
What is an entrepreneur?
500
What city in the in the Midwest became one of the world's busiest railroad centers?
What is Chicago, IL?
500
Name the person who opened up one of the biggest stockyards in Kansas.
Who is Joseph McCoy?
500
You must answer both of these correctly to get the points.
A. What word means the movement of people from one place to another?
B. What is the land beyond the settled part of a country where people do not live?