Savvas 7.3: Settling in the Midwest

Sort these Native American groups with what they did to survive.

Groups:

(a) Fox and Shawnee

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(b) Ojibwa

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(c) Omaha

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(d) Lakota

• were nomads and followed the bison

• hunted, fished and gathered

• farmed in river valleys

• farmed corn, beans, and squash

What is the fur trade that took place in the Midwest?

• Trading of fur from mythical creatures such as unicorns and dragons.
• Trading of fur from animals such as beavers, foxes, and minks.
• Trading of fur from reptiles such as snakes and alligators.
• Trading of fur from domesticated animals such as cats and dogs.

In 1787, Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance. What are the five states that came from that territory?

What countries did the immigrants come from that settled in the Midwest?

• France, Italy, Spain, and Greece
• China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
• Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia
• Germany, Norway, Sweden, Hungary and Ireland

Put these events in order to show how farming progressed in the Midwest.

• John Deer invented the steel plow.

• Horses and oxen started pulling heavier plows.

• Farmers had to remove trees by hand.

• The tractor helped to pull plows.

• Farmers had to clear grass from the plains with a plow that had a hard time getting through the roots.

In ​ (a)   , a French trader founded Detroit. Cleveland was founded in ​ ​ (b)   .

In ​ (c)   , another French trader settled St. Louis.

• 1701
• 1786
• 1764

What is Detroit's nickname?

• The Big Apple
• The Windy City
• The Emerald City
• Motor City

Match the vocabulary words with the correct definitions.

• missionary

• a person sent to a new land to spread his or her religion

• trading post

• a person who moves from place to place in order to survive

• Northwest Ordinance

• a farm tool, pulled by a tractor or animal, used to turn the soil

• nomad

• a store or small settlement set up in a distant place

• plow

• a law that determined how the Northwest Territory would become states