Midwest Test Review

Iowa

• Great Lakes State

• Great Plains State

South Dakota

• Great Lakes State

• Great Plains State

Wisconsin

• Great Lakes State

• Great Plains State

Ohio

• Great Lakes State

• Great Plains State

Illinois

• Great Lakes State

• Great Plains State

Iowa

• Great Lakes State

• Great Plains State

Indiana

• Great Lakes State

• Great Plains State

Why did the U.S. government divide the Northwest Territory into townships?

• for farming purposes

• to stop the fighting over who owned parts of the land

• to make buying the land easier from the American Indians

• to put a stop to bringing enslaved Africans to the area

Detroit was the center of the U.S. automobile industry because

• the workers built cars by hand

• Detroit's factories were close to the region's steel industy

• Detroit was home to the region's agricultural industry

• Detroit was already shipping tons of farm equiment around the world

Pioneers moved to the Great Plains

• to find jobs in new industries

• to settle along freshwater lakes

• to escape fighting during the Civil War

• to get land that was being offered for free through the Homestead Act