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Lesson 1: Geography of the Midwest
Lesson 2: Early History of the Midwest
Lesson 3: Transportation in the Midwest
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Part 2
100
What is an area of flat or rolling land covered mostly with grasses and wildflowers?
What is a prairie?
100
Who did the United States purchase the Louisiana Territory from? For how much money?
What is France; 15 million dollars
100
Name one advantage of a steamboat over a flatboat.
What is an engine; could go upstream; faster; cost of shipping goods dropped
100
With few trees available, pioneers used _____ to build their homes.
What is sod?
100
In the late 1800's railroads brought ________ to the Midwest to start new businesses.
What is an entrepreneur?
200
The Eastern part of the Interior plains are known as the ________. The main crop grown here is _______.
What is the Central Plains; corn.
200
What is the name of the act in 1862 that offered free land for people to settle in the Midwest.
What is the Homestead Act?
200
Which U.S city became the center of the nation's automobile industry because of its location on the Great Lakes and abundance of steel.
What is Detroit, Michigan?
200
Powerful _____ are common in the spring and summer in the Midwest.
What is a tornado?
200
On the plains, many neighbors were miles away from each other, therefore families had to be________.
What is self-sufficient?
300
Which process formed the Great Lakes thousands of years ago?
What is the moving and melting of glaciers?
300
Why did early settlers on the Great Plains need to be self- sufficient?
They were moving to the frontier and therefore, there were not many people here. Their neighbors were very far away. They had to make all their food and clothing- anything they needed to survive- on their own. They couldn't rely on purchasing items at a nearby store.
300
Who first created an assembly line in 1913 in Detroit, Michigan that helped the automobile industry grow?
Who is Henry Ford?
300
A square section of land in the Northwest Territory measuring six miles on each side.
What is a township?
300
A law or set of laws
What is an ordinance?
400
The Western and drier part of the Interior Plains are known as the ________. The nickname for this part of the Interior Plains is the _______.
What is the Great Plains; America's Breadbasket
400
Explain one way the Sioux had to adapt to life in the Great Plains.
Not as many waterways- had to use horses instead of canoes.
400
What is a stockyard? Where were they located out of convenience?
A place where livestock is bought, sold, and help before shipment; near railroads to be taken to markets in the East.
400
_______ is rock that contains enough of one or more kinds of minerals to be mined.
What is ore?
400
An economy in which factories and machines manufacture most goods.
What is industrial economy?
500
Explain the Lake Effect.
The large bodies of water absorb heat in the summer and release heat in the winter. In the winter, cold wind picks up moisture from the lakes and this causes snowfall to be heavier.
500
Why does your group think many pioneers (define) were willing to settle on the frontier in the Midwest?
Pioneers are people that first settle a place. People were willing to settle the frontier because of the free land being offered. It was a great opportunity to own their own land in the United States.
500
How did railroads affect the Midwest?
Helped transport pioneers- entrepreneurs, cattle (stockyards), made shipping goods cheaper
500
To change in order to make more useful such as fitting one's way of living into a new environment is to _____.
What is adapt?
500
The movement of people from one place to another is known as _______.
What is migration?