This city in the Midwest began as Jean Baptiste Point
Du Sable's trading post.
What is Chicago?
100
The capital of Minnesota.
What is St. Paul?
100
Des Moines is the capital of this state.
What is Iowa?
200
These are made up of dry hills and sharp cliffs.
What are the badlands?
200
They developed fur trading in the Midwest.
Who are Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette?
200
This city is know as the Gateway to the West.
What is St Louis?
200
The capital of Ohio.
What is Columbus?
200
Bismarck is the capital of this state.
What is North Dakota?
300
Engineers built these on the St. Lawrence river to make a passageway from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean
easier.
What are locks and canals?
300
He invented the new steel plow.
Who is John Deere?
300
Three forms of transportation that helped the Midwest become the hub of the nation.
What steamboats, interstate highways, and railroads?
300
The capital of Wisconsin?
What is Madison?
300
Springfield is the capital of this state.
What is Illinois?
400
Three reasons the Great Plains farmers are able to grow corn and soybeans.
What is the soil is rich, they irrigate the land, and the growing season is long?
400
Three reasons people rushed to settle the Midwest in the 1800's.
What are people wanted to start farming, years of suffering had weakened many Native American groups, and European pioneers continued to push westward?
400
Three cities where the Ojibwa settled.
What are Duluth, Mn; Milwaukee, Wi; and Mt. Pleasant, Mi.?
400
The capital of Kansas.
What is Topeka?
400
Indianapolis is the capital of this state.
What is Indiana?
500
Three goals of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
What are to expand the fur trade; find a river flowing to the Pacific Ocean; and learn about and and peoples of the West?
500
The capitals of South Dakota and Nebraska.
What are Pierre and Lincoln?
500
Jefferson City and Lansing are the capitals of these two states.