Social Studies Ch 9 Notes

Question 0

The Ojibwa Indians used natural resources of the land by using ______ for homes and canoes _________for hunting and ________for food water and transportation?

Answer 0

Trees forests and rivers

Question 1

The Ojibwa Indians settled in the present day states of:

Answer 1

Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan

Question 2

The Europeans traded ________

Answer 2

Clothes, guns and knives

Question 3

The Ojibwa traded_______

Answer 3

Skins from beavers

Question 4

How do some Ojibwa live today?

Answer 4

Many still live in the northern Great Lakes region. Some live on reservations. they hunt fish and make traditional crafts

Question 5

Who were the first Europeans to come to the Midwest?

Answer 5

French

Question 6

When did Marquette and Joliet explore the midwestern waterways

Answer 6

1673

Question 7

Why did the French trap animals for their furs?

Answer 7

There furs were very valuable in Europe

Question 8

Name one Midwestern city that began as forts or trading posts

Answer 8

Sault St. Marie and Chicago

Question 9

Why would the United States government forced Native Americans to move?

Answer 9

To make room for settlers from the East.

Question 10

The two main types of homes that midwestern pioneers built were

Answer 10

1. ) sod homes

2. ) log cabins

Question 11

Stacking bricks made of thick prairie sod formed______

Answer 11

Sod homes

Question 12

What was built using trees?

Answer 12

Log cabins

Question 13

How did the farmers in the Midwest in the early 1800s make money?

Answer 13

Selling the animals or the milk or the eggs the animals produced

Question 14

How do farmers protect their farmland?

Answer 14

I plowing and planting in curves, using crop rotation, and allowing Prairie grasslands to grow back

Question 15

The area where farmers suffered greatly because of years of drought is known as the

Answer 15

Dust bowl

Question 16

Cahokia is the key trade center because

Answer 16

It was close to junction of three rivers that were used for shipping goods: the Illinois the Missouri and the Mississippi

Question 17

The two main goals of the Lewis and Clark expedition were

Answer 17

First to find a westward flowing river near the of the Missouri that would take the Pacific ocean
second to expand the fur trade

Question 18

One advantage that steamboats had over human powered boats was that steam boats were

Answer 18

Bigger and faster

Question 19

How did the invention of the steamboat affect the city of St. Louis?

Answer 19

The steamboat led to increased shipping and transportation, which caused St. Louis to grow

Question 20

In the mid-1800s too late 1800s what expanded and became an important means of travel and trade?

Answer 20

Railroads

Question 21

What were some advantages that railroads had over water transportation?

Answer 21

Rail lines could be built almost anywhere; weather did not affect train travel as much as it did travel on steamboats

Question 22

By the 1950s the government decided that the nation needed a set of wide, fast, interconnecting highways to link all the states so they built the

Answer 22

Interstate highway system