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The Midwest Region

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 6mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

All of the following are Great Lakes states...

a)

Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, New York

b)

Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio

c)

Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Virginia

d)

Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, South Dakota

2.

Settlers changed the landscape of the Northwest Territory by...

a)

digging canals

b)

giving land to Native Americans

c)

chopping down trees to build homes

d)

making canoes

3.

President Thomas Jefferson purchased this territory from France in 1803

a)

Virginia

b)

Arizona

c)

Louisiana

d)

Minnesota

4.

What was the fastest form of transportation in the 19th century?

a)

flatboats

b)

pioneer

c)

township

d)

railroads

5.

Became known as "Motor City" because of the mass production of cars

a)

Detroit

b)

Chicago

c)

frontier

d)

Midwest

6.

Factory workers arranged in a line with machines and equipment

a)

motor city

b)

assembly line

c)

frontier

d)

stockyard

7.

a section of the country with its own government

a)

United States

b)

Midwest

c)

township

d)

prairie

8.

a boat powered by steam

a)

steamboat

b)

flatboat

c)

automobile

d)

railroad

9.

a wide flat or rolling area covered with grasses

a)

plateau

b)

prairie

c)

west

d)

field

10.

a person who travels to an unknown land

a)

immigrant

b)

worker

c)

pioneer

d)

conductor

11.

a large yard where cattle was kept before being shipped

a)

farm

b)

port

c)

stockyard

d)

zoo

12.

On the Great Plains, the Sioux lived...

a)

in teepees as they followed the herds

b)

lived in villages and farmed

c)

lived in canoes on the Great Lakes

d)

lived in longhouses