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Transportation
100
Set of wide, fast, interconnecting highways to link the states
What is Interstate Highway System?
100
Type of store at which goods are traded
What is a trading post?
100
These were warm in the winter and cold in the summer, but difficult to keep clean
What is a sod house?
100
This president sent Lewis and Clark on a mission to find a water route to the west
Who is President Thomas Jefferson?
100
This is the grade we are all going to try and get on our test tomorrow
What is an A or A+
200
Rail line that connected the entire country
What is the transcontinental railroad?
200
Boat powered by a steam engine
What is a steamboat?
200
Built in the 1950's and used to link the states
What is the interstate highway system?
200
These people lived on fertile land and grew lots of vegetables.
Who are the Ojibwa?
200
These type of boats were bigger and faster than human powered boats
What are steamboats?
300
Exchange of animal skins for other goods
What is fur trade?
300
Grass, roots, and dirt that form the ground's top layer
What is sod?
300
True or False: Midwestern pioneers lived peacefully with Native American groups in the region when they first arrived
What is False?
300
These explorers were sent on a mission to find a water route from the Midwest to the Pacific, but were unsuccessful
Who are Lewis and Clark?
300
These types of things should not be shipped by barges or boats
What is food, dairy, and perishable items
400
Settlement set up by a religious group to teach its religion and to help the people of an area?
What is a mission?
400
Time of little rain
What is a drought?
400
This was the area in the Midwest and Southeast that suffered the most during the drought in the 1930's
What is the Dust Bowl?
400
He is an entrepreneur who created a "Self-Polisher" plow
Who is John Deere?
400
This man worked on the Mississippi River as a steamboat pilot and later became a writer
Who is Mark Twain or Samuel Langhorne Clemens?
500
Center of activity
What is a hub?
500
Pile of earth or stones
What is a mound?
500
The reason for finding a water route west to the Pacific Ocean
What is to expand trade?
500
He is called "the father of Chicago"
Who is Jean Baptiste Point Du Sable?
500
This type of transportation can go almost anywhere in any type of weather
What is a train?
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