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100

An area of flat or rolling land covered mostly with grasses and wildflowers.

What is the prairie?

100

This is the main resource found in Northern Minnesota. 

What is iron ore?

100

This animal was hunted by Native Americans on the Central Plains.  

What is the buffalo?

100

This is a boat powered by a steam engine. 

What is a steamboat?

100

This was a president who grew up in the midwest and lived in a log cabin.

Who was Abraham Lincoln?

200

There are 5 of these large bodies of water.  One is near Minnesota. 

What are the Great Lakes?

200

This is the main resource found in Kansas.

What is oil or natural gas?

200

This is a layer of soil held together by the roots of grass that pioneers used to build houses.

What is sod?

200

These are people who start new businesses.

What are entrepreneurs?

200

This man helped build automobiles and factories.

Who was Henry Ford?

300

This is a funnel-shaped spinning storm.

What is a tornado?

300

This is the main land use in the Midwest. 

What is farming?

300

This is a person who first settles a place. 

What is a pioneer?

300

This is a place where livestock is bought, sold, and kept.

What is a stockyard?

300

This man was known for making the steamboat.

Who was Robert Fulton?

400

This is a period of little or no rain. 

What is a drought?

400

The main land uses in Nebraska are this.

What is cattle, sheep, and hogs, and farming?

400

This is the land the government divided into square that settlers could have. 

What are townships?

400

This is a line of workers alone with a products moves as it is made.

What is an assembly line?

400

This man owned one of the largest stockyards. 

Who was Joseph McCoy?

500

When moisture from a frozen lake makes it snow nearby.  

What is the Lake Effect?

500

Name 5 of resources found in the Midwest.

What are coal, gold, granite, limestone, and lead?

500

This is a set of laws that governed a territory.

What are ordinances?

500

THis is the kind of economy where good are made by machines and factories. 

What is industrial economy?

500

This Native American fought the settlers for their land.

Who was Tecumseh?

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