The Midwest Region

All of the following are Great Lakes states...

• Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York

• Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio

• Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Virginia

• Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, South Dakota

Settlers changed the landscape of the Northwest Territory by...

• digging canals

• giving land to Native Americans

• chopping down trees to build homes

• making canoes

President Thomas Jefferson purchased this territory from France in 1803

• Virginia

• Arizona

• Louisiana

• Minnesota

What was the fastest form of transportation in the 19th century?

• flatboats

• pioneer

• township

• railroads

Became known as "Motor City" because of the mass production of cars

• Detroit

• Chicago

• frontier

• Midwest

Factory workers arranged in a line with machines and equipment

• motor city

• assembly line

• frontier

• stockyard

a section of the country with its own government

• United States

• Midwest

• township

• prairie

a boat powered by steam

• steamboat

• flatboat

• automobile

• railroad

a wide flat or rolling area covered with grasses

• plateau

• prairie

• west

• field

a person who travels to an unknown land

• immigrant

• worker

• pioneer

• conductor