Geography of the Midwest
Glaciers dug five giant holes, and melting ice filled these.
What are the five Great Lakes
The first tribe living there.
What is the Sioux
Wild land beyond cities and towns that have already been built
President Thomas Jefferson bought a giant chunk of land from France known as
What is the Louisiana Purchase
The first way people traveled west.
What is wagons
Some big cities that grew around river ports.
St. Louis, Missouri; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Minneapolis, Minnesota
is carved into a mountain in South Dakota’s Black Hills
What is Mount Rushmore
An area of flat or rolling land where grasses and wildflowers grow.
What is a prairie
The Sioux lived near these in the Central Plains
What are lakes and rivers
Land was divided into this.
What is townships
The year the Homstead Law was passed
What is 1862
One of the world's busiest railroad centers.
What is Chicago, Illinois
The center of the U.S. automobile industry.
What is Detroit
Many people work in service industries such as
What is banking and/or real estate
Two dangerous weather conditions.
What are a tornado and a drought.
The Sioux lived in these in the Great Plains
What is a teepee
A set of laws explaining how government worked in the territory.
What is the Northwest Ordinance
You had to live on the land for this many years to get it for free.
What is 5 years.
A place where herds of livestock are held before being shipped to market
What are stockyards.
helped make the automobile industry bigger
Who is Henry Ford
Goods are moved in four main ways:
What is trucks, trains, planes, and boats
Two of the top oil-producing states.
What are Kansas and North Dakota
The Buffalo were hunted how many times a year.
What is 2
Abraham Lincoln was this age when his family moved to what is now Indiana.
What is 7?
This was used to build houses.
What is sod?
Farmers used them to move crops to the market
What are flatboats.
a row of workers who put together a product step by step.
What is an assembly line
painted scenes of the Midwestern countryside.
Who is Thomas Hart Benton
The acronym HOMES stands for.
What are Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior.
These materials were used by Lakota girls and boys to build sleds.
What are buffalo ribs and skins
He said, “A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.”
Who is Chief Tecumseh
People burned this for fires.
What is straw, corncobs, dried manure?
These took livestock to markets in the East.
What are railroad cars.
she is considered the first African American female millionaire in the United States.
Who is Madam C.J. Walker
In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, many people enjoy
What is the Polish Fest