Geography/Climate
Early History
Transportation
Great Lakes States
Plains States
100
These plains cover the entire Midwest.
What is the Interior Plains?
100
The Sioux moved to the Great Plains and depended greatly on these to survive.
What are buffalo?
100
The early settlers mostly used these two modes of transportation to reach the Great Plains.
What are flatboats and covered wagons?
100
These are large boats with flat bottoms that are very useful for carrying goods on the rivers and lakes today.
What are barges?
100
This is the number of Plains States because they are located in the Great Plains.
What is six?
200
The Great Lakes were formed by these.
What are glaciers?
200
This was a set of laws describing how a new American territory would be governed; it was passed by our government in 1787.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
200
In the mid to late 1800's, these were important to helping the region grow because they provided an easier way for settlers to reach the Midwest.
What are Railroads?
200
This is how many Great Lakes states there are because each one borders at least one of the Great Lakes.
What is six?
200
Farmers use these to help them plant and harvest crops more quickly.
What are modern farm machines?
300
These plains are in the eastern part of the Interior Plains and they get more rain.
What are the Central Plains?
300
On the Great Plains, most early settlers used this material, a layer of soil held together by the roots of grasses, to build their homes.
What is sod?
300
This is a line of workers along which a product moves as it is put together one step at a time.
What is an assembly line?
300
This industry is growing most recently in the Midwest.
What is Service Industry?
300
Mount Rushmore is located here.
What are the Black Hills of South Dakota?
400
These plains are in the western part of the Interior Plains and they are drier because they don't get as much rain.
What are the Great Plains?
400
In 1803, the United States bought a large area of land from France and it became called this.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
400
This man helped the automobile industry grow in Detroit, MI.
Who is Henry Ford?
400
Frank Lloyd Wright is famous for his work in what field?
What is architecture?
400
The shift of people to urban areas from rural areas is called this.
What is urbanization?
500
The worst one of these in our country's history lasted for ten years in the 1930's.
What is a drought?
500
The U.S. decided to control the settling of the Northwest Territory by dividing the land up into these.
What are townships?
500
When the Sioux moved to the Great Plains, they had to rely on horses instead of canoes for this.
What is transportation?
500
These are two service-type industries that are also growing in the Midwest.
What is entertainment and tourism?
500
Some city industries, such as this one, depend on the region's farm and ranches.
What is food processing?
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