Importance of Water
Miscellaneous
Transportation
Farms & Homes in the Midwest
Ojibwa and earlier
100
These were created by the melting of Ice Age glaciers.
What were the Great Lakes
100
What is the advantage of shipping goods by barge
It costs less than other methods of shipping
100
Which of the following did not help the Midwest become the hub of the nation? interstate highways, airplanes, steamboats, railroads
What is airplanes
100
This was a huge disadvantage of homes made from sod.
What is they were hard to keep clean
100
Which present-day city is NOT one at which the Ojibwa settled? Duluth, Milwaukee, Mt. Pleasant, Chicago
What is Chicago
200
The reason that President Jefferson wanted to find a water route to the West?
What is to expand trade.
200
Did the Midwestern pioneers live peacefully with the Native American groups of the region?
No
200
In this decade the interstate highway system was begun
What is the 1950's
200
Of the following crops, which was not grown in the Midwest? cotton, corn, soybeans, wheat
What is cotton
200
How has the culture of the Ojibwa changed since the 1600s?
Many live on reservations
300
What connects the Great Lakes to the Hudson River (hint- it includes 2 things)
What is St. Lawrence Seaway and the St. Lawrence River
300
Fur trading posts were set up following the routes of which two explorers?
Who are Jolliet and Marquette
300
A flat-bottomed boat that transports goods
What is a barge
300
How does irrigation help farmers?
It allows them to bring water from rivers or underground to spray over their crops
300
Because mountain ranges rose and blocked the rain that once fell there, the climate of this area became cooler and less humid.
What is the badlands
400
Why was it so important economically to connect the Great Lakes with the Mississippi River.
Goods can be shipped by water at a low cost.
400
Of the following which would probably NOT be seen on a prairie? Trees, grasses, sheep, cattle
What is trees
400
What was the number one advantage of shipping by rail instead of by steamboat?
Rail line can be built almost anywhere
400
What can happen to farmland during times of drought?
What is it can turn to dust and blow away
400
Who lived in the Badlands before the Native Americans
The Dinosaurs
500
Name the 5 Great Lakes
Erie, Ontario, Huron, Michigan, Superior
500
What are important products of Wisconsin
Milk and diary
500
These two major Midwestern cities began as forts or trading posts
What is Chicago and Sault St. Marie
500
This man helped farmers by inventing a steel plow. This helped with the tough prairie sod that was hard to plow.
Who is John Deere
500
Where the mounds of Cahokia used for homes?
No
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