HMH THE MIDWEST VOCAB

Factory workers, machines, and equipment arranged to put together a product step by step.

• Assembly Line

• Drought

• Ordinance

• Survey

An efficient way of making things in quantity using set patterns and machines.

• Assembly Line

• Ordinance

• Mass Production

• Drought

A person who travels to an unknown or unsettled land.

• Frontier

• Pioneer

• Migration

• Flatboat

An unusually long period of time with little rain, causing hardship for farmers and residents.

• Frontier

• Sod

• Survey

• Drought

The wild, unsettled land beyond or at the edge of settled cities and towns.

• Pioneer

• Frontier

• Township

• Urbanization

The act of people moving from one place to another.

• Assembly Line

• Stockyard

• Migration

• Urbanization

A rectangular wooden boat with a flat bottom used for moving goods on rivers.

• Sod

• Flatboat

• Steamboat

• Frontier

A broad flat or rolling area covered with grasses.

• Frontier

• Sod

• Prairie

• Township

A rule or law made by a government.

• Ordinance

• Survey

• Urbanization

• Migration

The state or process of becoming city-like.

• Migration

• Urbanization

• Ordinance

• Mass Production