Farming
Industry
The Land
People
The Pioneers
100
These were used by farmers to plow the fields before tractors.
What is oxen, horses, or donkeys?
100
In the 1900s the Great Migration was the name of this group of people moving northward.
What is the African American people?
100
The Lakota lived in tee pees so they could easily follow this.
What is the buffalo?
100
He invented the Steel Plow?
What is John Deere?
100
Because land was so expensive on the Atlantic Coast, many people did this . . .
What is moved to the Middle West?
200
These are two of the Middle West's important crops?
What is corn and wheat?
200
Manufacturing large amounts of goods using identical parts.
What is mass production?
200
Who lived on the land before the Americans arrived?
What is the Native Americans (Lakota)?
200
He grew up in the Midwest and later became the President who freed slaves.
What is Abraham Lincoln?
200
What invention helped break through the hard soil of the Middle West?
What is steel plow?
300
Because they can guarantee a certain price, farmers often work with these companies.
What is the food processing industry?
300
This turns crops into the food you buy in the store.
What is food processing?
300
Farmers can grow crops in the Middle West because the soil is very ___________.
What is fertile?
300
He led the Army attack on Little Bighorn.
What is George Custer?
300
A person who settle on land that is new, and leads the way into new territories is. . . .
What is a pioneer?
400
This machine helped get the crops out of the field at harvest time.
What is a combine?
400
This city is called the "Motor City" USA.
What is Detroit?
400
What is the greatest state in the Middle West?
What is Nebraska? Go Huskers!!!
400
He set up a trading post that became the city of Chicago.
What is Jean Baptiste Point du Sable?
400
Land set aside by the government for the Native Americans to live on.
What is a reservation?
500
Because it grows a great deal of wheat, the Middle West is given this nickname.
What is the Breadbasket?
500
This caused cities to grow, and the number of farm workers to shrink.
What is industrialization? (The invention of machinery and factories.)
500
What state is your neighbor to the west?
What is Missouri?
500
He helped create the idea of mass production by making an assembly line.
What is Henry Ford?
500
Name two things the pioneers did to be self-sufficient.
What is made their own shelters and gathered their own food. (other answers: made their clothes, tools, blankets out of buffalo.)
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