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Michigan Trivia
Farming
Lumbering
Mining
Automobile Industry
100
DeWitt was settled by this man.
What is Captain David Scott
100
These people were the first to farm in Michigan.
What are the Native Americans.
100
This tree was the resource for the lumbering era (time period) in Michigan History.
What is the white pine.
100
The two minerals that were mined in Michigan in the 1840s.
What are copper and iron ore.
100
The man that was the big innovator in the automobile industry in Michigan.
Who is Henry Ford.
200
The year Michigan became a state.
What is 1837.
200
This era (activity) in Michigan, controlled by the French, ended as a result of over-hunting animals.
What is the fur trade.
200
Explain why trees were considered a problem AND a resource to early settlers in Michigan.
Farmers needed trees cleared for land (problem), and lumbering, or the cutting of trees, became an important economic activity.
200
This is where Michigan's mining took place.
What is the Upper Peninsula.
200
The reason many early car companies went out of business.
What is competition among the companies.
300
In 1957, this historic event happened in Michigan.
What is the opening of the Mackinac Bridge
300
These two things made farming an attractive option for people to come to Michigan.
What are fertile soil and cheap prices on land.
300
The parts of Michigan that grew the most white pines.
What is northern Lower Michigan and the U.P.
300
The reason why mining got off to a slow start in Michigan.
What is people didn't know how and lacked the tools to do it successfully.
300
By 1920, this type of car made up about half of the cars in the United States.
What is the Model-T.
400
The three areas of Social Studies that are part of Michigan History.
What is Geography, History, and Economics.
400
This is why people came to farm in Michigan.
What is SCARCITY of land in the eastern United States.
400
These two forms of technology helped with the lumbering process.
What is logging railroads and Big Wheels (Silas Overpack).
400
Name two things that can be made with copper, and two things that can made with iron ore.
What is copper- coins, plumbing, ships, roofs. Iron ore- ships, buildings, railroads, bridges.
400
Name the Big 3 car companies that began to lead the automobile industry in the early 1900s.
What is Chrysler, General Motors (GM), and Ford.
500
The three natural resources that were a big part of Michigan's economic success.
What is Land (and fertile soil), Tree, and the Great Lakes.
500
Name five important things that Michigan farmers grew and raised.
What is corn, wheat, oats, potatoes, pigs, chickens, cows, sheep.
500
Describe the lumbering process, using at least 5 of the main parts.
What is finding an area of trees, setting up a camp, cutting the trees (lumberjacks), loading the trees on sleighs, bringing the trees to the banks of the river, when the rivers melt, pushing the logs into the river, floating the logs down the river (riverhogs), sorting the logs (boomers), sending them to the sawmills, making them into boards, shipping them to big cities, using the Great Lakes.
500
Two ways that copper and iron mining were alike, and two ways they were different.
Answers will vary.
500
This way of production changed the way cars were made. Name it, and describe how it has changed over time.
What is the assembly line, and things have become more faster/better with more technology, and robots.