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Native Americans
in the Midwest
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Fact & Opinion
100
What is the word first used by European settlers to describe the edge of their settlement called?
Frontier.
100
What is the name of the people who lead the way into a land unknown to them?
Pioneers.
100
What was the main source of food for the Sioux?
Buffalo.
100
What is using new ideas and tools to meet human needs called?
Technology.
100
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the U.S.
Fact
200
Tepee.
What is a cone-shaped tent that can be easily put up and taken down called?
200
How did Abraham Lincoln survive the hardships of the frontier?
By making the things he needed.
200
How were Plains Indians able to survive?
Selling buffalo hides.
200
What did farmers who settled on the prairie use the tough sod for?
Shelters.
200
The Sioux hunted the buffalo.
Fact
300
Why did the pioneers move to the frontier?
Eastern farmland was crowded.
300
In Illinois, Abraham Lincoln was well known for his work as what?
Lawyer.
300
The Sioux believed that a boy became a man when he ____?
Killed his first buffalo.
300
The railroad was important because it allowed the pioneers to____?
Travel farther in less time.
300
All tepees are beautiful.
Opinion.
400
People who are self-sufficient must be able to do what?
Provide for their own needs.
400
What was Abraham Lincoln known for while he was working as a storekeeper?
Honesty.
400
How did the killing of millions of buffalo affect the Plains Indians?
It ended their way of life.
400
The windmill improved life on the plains by allowing settlers to _____?
Pump water from deep wells.
400
The U.S. government used soldiers to force the Sioux to move to reservations.
Fact.
500
Which animal was important to the way of life to the Plains Indians, and why did the American settlers kill millions of them?
Buffalo and because they made it difficult to travel across the prairie by train.
500
Who was the leader of the American army at Little Big Horn?
George Custer.
500
What is land set aside by the government for Native Americans to live on called?
Reservation.
500
What did the invention of barbed wire allow western settlers to do?
Build their fences with little wood.
500
Building a log cabin was an interesting activity.
Opinion.