Farming
The planting of different crops in different years.
What is crop rotation?
The areas of land that settlers moving west moved into was called.
What are the prairies?
The Midwest region is made up of this many states.
What is 12?
The city in which Lewis and Clark first began their adventure west in.
What is St. Louis?
Jacques Marquette was a French explorer who was also a?
What is a priest?
Name 3 "corn belt" states that start with the letter "I"
What is Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana?
Describe at least two ways Native American tribes of the Midwest provided food for themselves.
What are hunting, gathering, fishing and farming?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This state's capital is the name of a former president.
What is Nebraska?
A major waterway used in the fur trade.
What is the Mississippi or Missouri Rivers?
Name 2 reasons or goals Marquette and Jolliet set off on their adventure for.
What is expand trade, meet new people, establish trading posts, and map the Mississippi?
Measurement for corn yield (growth).
What is bushels?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
John Deere moved to which Midwest state.
What is Illinois?
This capital has the name of its state in it.
What is Indianapolis?
Describe what the word "hub" means.
What is a center of activity?
What were original families exploring/moving to the Midwest from the east called?
What are settlers?
The first homes of farmers were made out of this.
What is sod?
The city in which Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable started as a trading post and now has become a major Midwest city.
What is Chicago?
Unscramble the following name of the state:
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What is Wisconsin?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
One factor in the major growth of St. Louis as a hub along the Mississippi River in the early 1800's.
What are the steamboats?
Which U.S. president sent Lewis and Clark on their expedition west?
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The inventor of the first, metal steel plow.
Who is John Deere?
This tribe was responsible for Birchbark canoes, which were very light and durable.
Who are the Ojibwa?
The names of the capitals for states that start with the letter M.
What is St. Paul, Minnesota/Jefferson City, Missouri/ and Lansing, Michigan?
Name the transportation system that was first developed in the 1950's that connects most all cities today.
What is the interstate highway system?
In what year did Lewis and Clark set out on their expedition up the Missouri River heading west?
What is 1804?