Early History of Michigan

The Three Fires made up all of these tribes except which one?

• Ojibwa
• Potawatomi
• Odawa
• Huron

Native Americans used _________ to teach lessons, explain things, and to pass along history.

• folk tales
• legends
• stories
• fairy tales

Who studies the past?

• paleontologist
• biologist
• historian
• geologist

The Three Fires tribes cleared large areas of land to build their homes.  True or False?

• True
• False

What was the cause of the French and Indian War?

• beaver fur
• bear fur
• French and Indians not getting along.
• taxes

To become a state Michigan needed 60,000 people, a resolution to the Toledo Strip conflict and ____________.

• a capitol city
• a constitution
• a railroad

The French originally came to the Great Lakes region in search of what?

• beaver fur
• new land
• silks and spices from Asia
• Native Americans

The Erie Canal did all of the following things EXCEPT?

• Allowed goods to be shipped inland.
• Allowed people to travel to Michigan and other places.
• Helped New York grow.
• Caused the East Coast to become overcrowded.

In what century did the fur trade begin?

• 1600's
• 1700's
• 1800's
• 1900's

Michigan became a state in what year?

• 1937
• 1737
• 1837
• 1825