Social Studies Ch 9 Notes Flashcards
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The Ojibwa Indians used natural resources of the land by using ______ for homes and canoes _________for hunting and ________for food water and transportation?
Trees forests and rivers
The Ojibwa Indians settled in the present day states of:
Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan
The Europeans traded ________
Clothes, guns and knives
The Ojibwa traded_______
Skins from beavers
How do some Ojibwa live today?
Many still live in the northern Great Lakes region. Some live on reservations. they hunt fish and make traditional crafts
Who were the first Europeans to come to the Midwest?
French
When did Marquette and Joliet explore the midwestern waterways
1673
Why did the French trap animals for their furs?
There furs were very valuable in Europe
Name one Midwestern city that began as forts or trading posts
Sault St. Marie and Chicago
Why would the United States government forced Native Americans to move?
To make room for settlers from the East.
The two main types of homes that midwestern pioneers built were
- ) sod homes
2. ) log cabins
Stacking bricks made of thick prairie sod formed______
Sod homes
What was built using trees?
Log cabins
How did the farmers in the Midwest in the early 1800s make money?
Selling the animals or the milk or the eggs the animals produced
How do farmers protect their farmland?
I plowing and planting in curves, using crop rotation, and allowing Prairie grasslands to grow back
The area where farmers suffered greatly because of years of drought is known as the
Dust bowl
Cahokia is the key trade center because
It was close to junction of three rivers that were used for shipping goods: the Illinois the Missouri and the Mississippi
The two main goals of the Lewis and Clark expedition were
First to find a westward flowing river near the of the Missouri that would take the Pacific ocean
second to expand the fur trade
One advantage that steamboats had over human powered boats was that steam boats were
Bigger and faster
How did the invention of the steamboat affect the city of St. Louis?
The steamboat led to increased shipping and transportation, which caused St. Louis to grow
In the mid-1800s too late 1800s what expanded and became an important means of travel and trade?
Railroads
What were some advantages that railroads had over water transportation?
Rail lines could be built almost anywhere; weather did not affect train travel as much as it did travel on steamboats
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
Interstate highway system
