Geography
An area of flat or rolling land covered with grass and wildflowers.
What is the prairie?
Most of the land in the Midwest is used for this.
What is farming?
This animal was an important food source for Native Americans in the Midwest.
What is the buffalo?
This is a kind of boat powered by water and steam.
What is a steamboat?
This man helped the automobile industry grow.
Who is Henry Ford?
There are 5 of these bodies of water. One of these is on the Eastern side of Minnesota.
What are the Great Lakes?
Minnesota has a lot of this resource, especially up north.
What is iron?
This is a layer of soil held together by the roots of grasses. Pioneers used it to build houses.
What is sod?
These are people who start new businesses.
What are entrepreneurs?
Who is Joseph McCoy?
This is a funnel-shaped spinning windstorm.
What is a tornado?
Kansas has quite a bit of this natural resource.
What is oil or natural gas?
This is the name of a person who first settles in a new place.
What is a pioneer?
This is what was build across the USA for trains to run.
What is a railroad?
This man helped develop the steamboat.
Who is Robert Fulton?
This is a long period of time with little or no rain.
What is a drought?
In Nebraska, the land is used for two main things.
What are cattle, sheep, and hogs, and farming?
These are the squares of land that the government divided the Northwest into for people to settle there.
What are townships?
This is the kind of economy that has most goods made by machines and in factories.
What is an industrial economy?
This is a president who grew up on the frontier and helped his dad build a log cabin.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This is when lakes freeze, and the cold air causes snow fall nearby.
What is the lake effect?
These are 3 other resources found in the Midwest.
What are coal, gold, granite, lead, limestone, or zinc.
These are sets of laws that governed territories.
What are ordinances?
This is a place where livestock is bought, sold and held before shipment.
What is a stockyard?
This was a Shawnee Chief that fought settlers for their land.
Who was Tecumseh?