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Vocabulary!
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Capitals!
Westward Expansion!
Miscellaneous!
100
This is a person who studies people, customs and life of ancient times by studying remains.
What is an archaeologist?
100
This is the wearing away of soil and rock by wind, water and ice.
What is erosion?
100
This is the capital of Ohio.
What is Columbus?
100
This is the animal that most wagons traveling along the Oregon Trail were pulled by because they were cheap and strong.
What are oxen?
100
These are two landmarks that can be found along the Oregon Trail.
What are Independence Rock, Chimney Rock, Soda Springs, etc...
200
This is a waterway dug across land for ships to go through.
What is a canal?
200
This is a large area of level or rolling land covered with grasses and few or no trees.
What is a prairie?
200
This is the capital of Michigan.
What is Lansing?
200
This was the main jumping off point for wagon trains.
What is Independence, Missouri.
200
These are two types of storms that strike the Midwest.
What are tornadoes and blizzards?
300
These are tents made of hides sewn together and stretched over poles in the shape of a cone.
What is a tepee?
300
This is a method of plowing sloping or hilly land to form ridges to hold back water.
What is contour plowing?
300
This is the capital of Wisconsin.
What is Madison?
300
This was the best time for pioneers to begin their journey.
What is April? (This was because the grass along the trail needed to grow for the cattle, and if they left too late they could be stuck in the Rocky Mountains by winter.)
300
These Indians lived along the Missouri River, and they were farmers and traders.
Who are the Mandan Indians?
400
These are borders that divide land into smaller parts.
What are boundaries?
400
These left behind thousands of lakes in the Midwest, and they left good soil for farming.
What are glaciers?
400
This is the capital of Missouri.
What is Jefferson City?
400
These were three dangers pioneers faced along the Oregon Trail.
What are diseases, dangerous animals, falling out of wagons, crossing rivers, Native American attacks, running out of supplies, buffalo stampedes, stormy weather, etc... (any 3 will do!)
400
This was the first pioneer to travel West in a covered wagon.
Who is Marcus Whitman?
500
These are houses made of grass and mud shaped over a wood frame.
What are earth lodges?
500
This is a huge area of land that the United States bought from France.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
500
This is the capital of South Dakota.
What is Pierre?
500
These are three reasons why the pioneers traveled westward.
They wanted more land and it was cheap, they were looking for adventure, and they wanted to find gold. (There are also many other reasons why they traveled west besides just these three!)
500
The western part of the plains is called the Great Plains, and the eastern part of the plains is called this.
What is the Central Plains?