Midwest Review

An area or building where animals are kept to be fattened for slaughter

• barn

• frontier

• livestock

• feedlot

A process in which each worker assembles one part of a product

• meatpacking

• assembly line

• enterprise

• vaquero

Animals like cattle or hogs that are raised on farms

• pets

• vaquero

• livestock

• herd

A region of wild, unexplored land

• frontier

• plateau

• desert

• reservation

Flat land covered with grasses

• field

• frontier

• prairie

• backyard

Spanish word for cowboy

• el nino

• vaquero

• maestro

• el perro

Name a popular industry in the Midwest other than farming

• basket weaving

• making clothes

• meatpacking

• baking

Public land set aside for American Indians

• village

• frontier

• prairie

• reservation

Which city is nicknamed, "Gateway to the West?"

• Detroit

• St. Louis

• New Orleans

• Chicago

Why did French traders settle in St. Louis, Missouri?

• There were two rivers nearby (Mississippi & Missouri)

• It was pretty there

• They could see Illinois from the top of the Gateway Arch

• The weather was good for planting crops