Midwest Region

Name the large amount of land purchased from France in 1803.

• the Louisiana Purchase

• the Northwest Territory

• the Mississippi River Valley

• the Interior Plains

What was the most important natural resource to Native Americans living on the Plains?

• trees

• bison

• horses

• soil

Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky and later moved to which two Midwest states?

• Kansas and Iowa

• Iowa and Indiana

• Michigan and Illinois

• Indiana and Illinois

  A Shawnee Warrior chief who organized a Native American confederacy to stop white settlement.

• Tecumseh

• Powhattan

• Crazy Horse

• Joseph McCoy

 In the mid-1800s, Topeka, KS, Kansas City, MO, Omaha, NE, and Chicago, IL became known as what type of towns?

• port towns

• railroad towns

• hobo towns

• steamboat stops

A place where livestock is bought, sold, and held for shipment.

• assembly line

• meat plant

• stockyard

• flatboat

Most goods are made by machines in factories.

• assembly line

• migration

• labor

• industrial economy

Lands beyond settlement are called the

• frontier

• prairie

• ordinance

• township

A layer of soil held together by the roots of grasses

• Plains

• prairie

• sod

• humus

A set of laws describing how the territory’s government would work.

• ordinance

• survey

• township

• constitution