Show:
Wagon Trains and Pioneer Life
The Lakota
Booming Industry
The Middle West Today
Misc.
100
What is the land beyond a settlement called?
a frontier
100
What was the main source of the Lakota's economy?
buffalo
100
What is it called when you produce a large amount of a product at one time?
mass production
100
Since most of the grain used to make bread is grown in the Middle West, what is it nicknamed?
"the breadbasket"
100
What were pioneers' homes made out of?
Sod
200
The trading post of Jean Baptiste due Sable became what major city?
Chicago
200
What type of housing did the Lakota use?
teepee
200
What is a moving belt called that allows a worker to do one specific job on a product? These are used in factories.
assembly line
200
What industries helped the middle west grow?
steel, agriculture, automobile
200
What almost killed off all of the buffalo?
White settlers and railroad workers
300
Explain two hardships that the pioneers faced when traveling to the frontier.
-attacks from Native Americans -running out of food/hunger -traveling over rough terrain and rivers -diseases
300
How did the Lakota get their horses?
The horses escaped from the Spanish herds
300
Who started the automobile industry by building the Model T?
Henry Ford
300
What is the name of a machine that separates grain from its stalk?
A combine
300
Where did many of the pioneers settle? *Hint* More specific than the middle west.
The Ohio River Valley
400
Why did pioneers want to move to the west? Need 2 reasons.
The land was very cheap and plentiful.
400
Who was William F. Cody?
Buffalo Bill
400
What was the time period in the 1900's called where there were so many changes in our country?
The roaring twenties
400
Why did many steel factories eventually close down in the middle west in America?
Companies in other countries were able to make them much cheaper.
400
Name one celebrity from the roaring twenties.
Amelia Earhardt
500
Describe what life was like for a pioneer.
It was difficult, they had to travel through hard terrain with little supplies, they had to work and build everything that they wanted to use, etc.
500
Explain why the buffalo was such an important part of life for the Lakota.
They needed the buffalo for many resources such as food, clothing, shelter, and tools.
500
What was it called when so many African Americans traveled to the middle west during the early 1900's? Why were they traveling to this region?
The Great Migration; They were traveling to the middle west to look for jobs in factories because they were no longer needed on the farms in the southeast.
500
Compare and contrast the Middle West today with long ago. What are two similarities and two differences?
Today-skyscrapers, steel buildings, farms use machines,large companies own farms, now have steel Long ago- small buildings, made of sod, wood, or bricks, farms owned by families and worked by hand Similarities - still much farmland, corn, wheat, soybeans, still produces steel
500
How did the Lakota use the various parts of the buffalo? Name at least 4 different ways.
hide-clothing, teepee meat-dried, cooked hair-rope bones-arrowhead, needles horns-spoon, headdress