The Ojibwa
The Fur Trade
Building Farms
Hub of the Nation
Miscellaneous
100
They lived on fertile land and grew most of their vegetables.
What is a way that doesn't describe the Ojibwa way of life?
100
Jolliet and Marquette
Who are the two explorers who set up fur trading post up along Midwest rivers and lakes?
100
The pioneers lived peacefully with the Native American groups in the region.
What is one thing which Midwestern pioneers did not do when they first arrived in the Midwest?
100
Present day St. Louis
What is the French set up a fur-trade center in the 1700's?
100
.gov; .org; .edu.
What is a good search engine with accurate information?
200
Ojibwa still live, hunt and fish in the northern Great Lake region.
What do the Ojibwa of today have in common with the early Ojibwa?
200
Chicago and Sault St. Marie
What is which two major Midwestern cities began as forts or trading posts?
200
These homes were hard to keep clean.
What is a disadvantage of homes build out of sod?
200
Farmers could ship their grain by boat to markets in St. Louis.
What is "how did steamboats help farmers in the early 1800's?"
200
Soil from the land darkened the skies for weeks and even blew as far as the East Coast.
What is a Dust Bowl?
300
Trees for homew and canoes; forests for hunting; lakes and rivers for food, water and transportation.
How did the Ojibwa use the natural resources of thier new homewland?
300
Trading posts were set up, Native Americans farmed and sold crops at forts, and communities & major cities grew around the forts.
What are the effects of fur trading on the Midwest?
300
The tough prairie sod was hard to plow.
What is what problem did John Deere help Midwest farmers solve?
300
These people discovered an easy water route from the Midwest to the Pacific ocean.
What is one thing that Lewis and Clark did not discover?
300
Thomas Jefferson
What is the president that sent Lewis and Clark on their famous journey?
400
The Ojibwa obtained skins to trade, in addition to those they needed for their own use.
What is "why the Ojibawa spent more time trapping after the European fur traders arrived?
400
The father of Chicago
What is Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable called?
400
Farmland can turn to dust and blow away.
What is what can happen to farmland during times of drought?
400
Rail lines could be build almost anywhere.
What is one advantage of shipping by rail instead of by steamboat?
400
Roads that link all states.
What is interstate highway system?
500
The Ojibwa traded furs and obtained a broader range of goods, but they were no longer self-sufficient.
What is an advantage and disadvantage of the fur trading did it bring to the Ojibwa?
500
Mounds were used for burial sites and ceremeonies; junction of three rivers; meeting plcae of many cultures.
What is Cahokia, anceint Midwest trading center?
500
A settler would claim land by hammering a wooden stake into each of the corners of the area.
What is how a farmer claimed land to be their home?
500
In the 1860's, US build a railway that crossed the entire country.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
500
Mission
What is a settlement set up by a religious group?
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