Vocabulary
Name one of the 2, top ten oil-producing states in the Midwest.
What are Kansas and Illinois?
In order to control settlement of the Northwest Territory, the government sent workers to measure the territory. That was called a what?
survey
This means to change in order to survive in a new environment.
Adapt
What mineral (used for energy) is plentiful in the midwest region?
Coal
What is a set of laws called?
Ordinance
A layer of soil held together by the roots of grasses.
Sod
What do you call the movement of people from one place to another?
Migration
Why are the Great Plains called America's Breadbasket?
That area grows wheat which is used to make flour.
What are lands beyond settlements called?
The frontier
When you do everything for yourself it is called this.
Self-sufficient
What do you call a person who starts a new business?
An entrepreneur
Who was the Shawnee Chief who joined tribes together to try to fight the settlers in order to keep their land?
Chief Tecumseh
What made the midwest cities grow in 1950?
Industrial economies
Where would you buy livestock?
Stockyard
Someone daring enough to be the first to settle a place is called this.
A pioneer
Cold winds that pick up moisture from the lakes, and cause snowfall to be heavier in some regions.
What is the Lake Effect?
What kind of vessel did workers load cargo on that look like large rafts?
Flatboats
The divided squares the government divided the land into were called these.
Townships
Henry Ford helped the auto industry grow by setting up this type of production to build cars.
An assembly line