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Vocabulary
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100
I am someone who uses special tools to measure land owned by the government and mark it into squares.
What is a surveyor
100
This town is located along the Muskegon River and was the location for a huge sawmill where logs were cut into boards.
What is Muskegon
100
In the early 1800s, the Michigan state government made traveling to Michigan easier by building these.
What are roads
100
A line graph is useful for showing this.
What is change over time
100
This is the reason why many newcomers settled in Detroit in the early to mid-1800s.
What is available work
200
A person who leaves one country in order to come and live in another.
What is an immigrant
200
This town is located long the Saginaw River and was the location for a large sawmill where logs were cut into boards.
What is Saginaw
200
Travel by water from the Atlantic Ocean to Michigan was made possibly by this.
What is the Erie Canal
200
A cirle graph is useful for showing this type of information.
What is showing parts of a whole or how different parts of a whole relate to each other
200
This is what some Michigan farmers grew by the 1840s which allowed them to buy the furniture, tools, and clothing they needed.
What are wheat and corn to sell
300
This is someone who is able to provide for most of their own needs by making and growing things.
What is a subsistence farmer
300
Large deposits of copper were found in this part of the Upper Peninsula.
What is the Keweenaw Peninsula
300
Transporting ore from the Upper Peninsula to Great Lake cities became much easier with the completion of this.
What is the Soo Canal
300
This type of graph would be useful in showing the highest average temperature in a specific place over a period of time.
What is a line graph
300
This was a typical home of a new settler in Michigan
What is a log cabin
400
This is a company, or group of companies, that makes a certain product or provides a certain service.
What is an industry
400
This was the name of an area in southern Michigan that was settled by a group of twenty-two families who set out from Vermont to Michigan.
What is Vermontville
400
These were the type of roads that were created during the early 1800s to help improve travel.
What are corduroy roads
400
This can be used to help you to know what a graph shows and should be found on both line and circle graphs.
What is a title
400
During the mid 1840s, thousands of people came to Michigan to do this.
What is mine copper and iron ore
500
These were referred to as "green gold".
What are Michigan's trees
500
This created a water route that stretched 363 miles across New York State and connected the Hudson River with Lake Erie.
What is the Erie Canal
500
By the mid 1850s, our state was crisscrossed by these which were used to carry logs from forests to mills.
What are railroads
500
This type of graph would be useful to show what percent of the entire Michigan population was born here in Michigan.
What is a circle graph
500
Trees, copper, and fertile soil are all considered these.
What are natural resources