Rolling land thickly covered with grasses and wildflowers.
What is a prairie?
100
This animal was depended upon by the Lakota.
What is the buffalo?
100
A rock that contains metal, such as iron.
What is ore?
100
These people pushed west because the land in the Middle West was less expensive.
Who are the pioneers?
100
A group of hills in Minnesota that are the source of most iron in the United States.
What is the Mesabi Range?
200
The way most iron ore in the Middle West is mined
What is open pit or strip mining?
200
Many times, Native Americans were forced to live on this land given to them by the government.
What is a reservation?
200
A person who leads the way into unfamiliar land to begin a new life.
What is a pioneer?
200
He invented an assembly line to make cars faster and cheaper.
Who is Henry Ford?
200
This is one of the country's most used water routes.
What are the Great Lakes?
300
The demand for this jumped between 1880 and 1910 due to the making of railroads, buildings, bridges, and cars.
What is steel?
300
Before these were brought to North America, the Native Amercians used dogs with sleds to carry things and also hunted on foot.
What are horses?
300
A period of time in which little rain falls.
What is drought?
300
A Lakota chief who led the Lakota in many conflicts. He refused to leave the Black Hills, and later worked with Crazy Horse during the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who is Sitting Bull?
300
A river in nothern Wyoming and southern Montana, known for Custer's Last Stand and the Battle of Little Bighorn
What is the Little Bighorn River?
400
This happens after mining is completed. The company using the land must return it to a piece of land that can be used by others.
What is reclamation?
400
The Lakota might use this part of the buffalo for swatting flies.
What is the tail?
400
The edge of a settled area.
What is the frontier?
400
He invented a steel plow that made life easier for the midwestern farmers.
Who is John Deere?
400
The largest city in Illinois that is also a major transportation center.
What is Chicago?
500
These are colder than in other parts of the United States because there are no mountains to block the movement of cold air.
What are midwestern winters?
500
The Lakota were also known as this.
What is the Sioux?
500
To manufacture large numbers of good using identical parts and assembly line methods.
What is mass production?
500
He was defeated by the Lakota in the Battle of Little Bighorn.
Who is George Custer?
500
A place where gold was found, forcing the Lakota to eventually move again.