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Frontier Life
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Statehood
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100
A boat powered by steam
What is a steamboat?
100
One thing settlers did for fun.
What is sports, games, playing music, or dancing?
100
A human-made waterway.
What is a canal?
100
The number state of Michigan.
What is 26?
100
The capital of Michigan Territory in 1805.
What is Detroit?
200
Land set aside by the government as settlements for American Indians.
What is a reservation?
200
The number of rooms in a frontier home.
What is one?
200
Keeping people against their will and forcing them to work without pay.
What is slavery?
200
The date that Michigan became a state.
What is January 26, 1837?
200
The law that said a state could be made as soon as 60,000 people lived in that place.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
300
A person who is one of the first people to settle in a region.
What is a pioneer?
300
Settlers had to take care of themselves.
What is self-reliant?
300
A person who comes to a new country to live.
What is an immigrant?
300
The piece of land that Michigan received after giving up the Toledo Strip.
What is the Upper Peninsula?
300
Two states that were formed from the Northwest Territory.
What is Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin?
400
Able to take care of yourself.
What is self-reliant?
400
Settlers cut these to create farms.
What are trees?
400
A subdivision 6 miles by 6 miles in size.
What is a township?
400
The state that Michigan gave the Toledo Strip to.
What is Ohio?
400
The number of days it took to travel from New York to Michigan by covered-wagon.
What is 30 days?
500
A rule, law, or decree.
What is an ordinance?
500
Settlers had to do these types of chores.
What are farming, cleaning, taking care of animals, etc?
500
An agreement in which each side gives up part of what it wants.
What is a compromise?
500
The small piece of land that first kept Michigan from becoming a state.
What is the Toledo Strip?
500
The number of days it took to travel from New York to Michigan by steamboat.
What is 14 days?