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Farming Tools in 1800s
Family Farms in 1800
Family Farms in 1900
100
The state North of Iowa
What is Minnesota?
100
The largest indoor shopping mall in the United States, located in Minnesota
What is the Mall of America?
100
The first tool used for plowing land (in the 1800s)
What is the cultivator?
100
The first farmhouse most families built
What is a log cabin?
100
The first home built on the prairie, built of blocks of dirt mixed with grass roots
What is a soddie?
200
The capital of South Dakota
What is Pierre?
200
The national monument carved into the Black Hills of South Dakota to honor four American presidents
What is the Black Hills of South Dakota?
200
The modern day tool used for cultivating land
What is the tractor plow?
200
Greased paper was used to cover small windows because this was too expensive to buy
What is glass?
200
The largest room of a typical farmhouse
What is the kitchen?
300
The major river that runs along the Eastern border of Iowa to the Gulf of Mexico
What is the Mississippi River?
300
The home of the Chicago Cubs
What is Wrigley Field?
300
The groove made by a plow with an iron blade
What is a furrow?
300
Used for milk, butter, and cheese
What are cows?
300
Only the richest farmers could afford this and running water
What is electricity?
400
The state in the Midwest that grows the most corn
What is Iowa?
400
Chicago's transportation hub, great for moving goods and people
What is the O'Hare International Airport?
400
A curved knife on a long handle used to harvest grain crops
What is a scythe?
400
Raised for wool to make clothes
What is sheep?
400
The art of preserving food by cooking and sealing it in cans or jars
What is canning?
500
The state in the Midwest that borders four of the five Great Lakes
What is Michigan?
500
The longest locks in the world, used to raise and lower ships up to 1,000 feet in length through the Great Lakes
What are the Soo Locks?
500
The tool used to separate the seeds of the grain from the rest of the plant
What is flail?
500
Attacked farm animals like chickens and hogs
What are wolves?
500
The most important new tool for prairie farmers
What is the steel plow?