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4th grade
4th grade
both grades
5th grade
5th grade
100
prairie
What is an area of flat or rolling land covered mostly with grasses and wildflowers.
100
In what ways do tornadoes affect the Midwest?
The Midwest averages over 300 tornadoes each year. They often destroy everything in their path.
100
How were railroads important to the growth of the Great Plains? (4th grade)
What is they provided an easier way for settlers to reach the Midwest.
100
representation
What is a voice in one's government.
100
John Dickinson
Who was the head of the committee for the Articles of Confederation
200
drought
What is a long period of little or no rain.
200
entrepreneur
What is a person who starts a new business.
200
How did many colonists protest the taxes placed on British goods? (5th)
They refused to buy British goods.
200
Samuel Adams
Who is the person that organized the first Committee of Correspondence in Boston and was thought by many people to have planned the Boston Tea Party.
200
Proclamation of 1763
What was a British announcement that set aside lands west of the Appalachian Mountains for Native Americans. Many colonists were angry about the proclamation, and many ignored it by continuing to settle on those lands.
300
migration
What is the movement of people from one place to another.
300
Name one way that the Sioux adapted to living on the Great Plains?
They moved from place to place, following herds of buffalo.
300
Chicago, Illinois (4th grade)
What is the Midwest city that connected ten major railroad lines in the mid-1800s.
300
In what ways did colonists protest British imperial policies?
They boycotted British goods. They wove their own cloth instead of buying British clothes. They formed Committees of Correspondence. They organized protests. They sent petitions to parliament. They formed malitias.
300
Thomas Jefferson
Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence
400
mass production
What is a process in which a product is made more quickly and cheaply by using machines.
400
sod
What most early settlers used to build their homes.
400
What was one major cause of the French and Indian War? (5th grade)
France and Britain both claimed the same lands in North America.
400
Richard Henry Lee
Who is the one that called for resolution in the Second Continental Congress for independence from Britain.
400
First Continental Congress of 1774 (meeting)
It met to decide how to respond to British policies and actions, such as the Coercive Acts. It sent a petition to the king, stating the colonists rights. It agreed to stop most trade with Britain. It asked the colonists to form malitias.
500
iron ore
What is the most plentiful mineral in the Midwest region.
500
the moving and melting of glaciers
What is the process that formed the Great Lakes thousands of years ago.
500
Henry Ford (both grades get this if they get it right, but you have to write your answer on a mini-white board)
What is the inventor that helped set up the assembly line in Detroit.
500
affects of the Batlle of Bunker Hill
It proved to the British that the colonists would not be easy to defeat in battle. It further angered British leaders. King George III promised to use stronger methods to crush the colonial rebellion.
500
George Washington
Who was the commander in chief of the Continental Army.