Midwest Chapter 7

The landscape of the Midwest is

The Great Lakes

Land that is good for growing crops

What waterway system connected the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean?

An industry important to the Midwest economy today

Rough land in western South Dakota

The Empire State building is built partly from __________, a natural resource mined in Indiana.

Part of the Midwest is called _______Alley because this type of extreme weather is common.

The western part of the Midwest is called the

Midwestern cities such as Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, and Cleveland all began as

What are two of the major rivers that flow through the Midwest?

How did the Native Americans make Cahokia the largest Native American city in North America?

One effect of the migration of large numbers of settlers to the Midwest in the 1800s

religious people who set up settlements to teach religion

a destructive column of spinning air with winds that can reach up to 300 miles per hour

Name of this state

The climate in the Midwest is

The eastern part of the Midwest is called the

Which crops grow well in the Great Plains, where is rains less than the Central Plains?

The center of a transportation network

This is a cultural attraction in the Midwest

A law that stated land in the Midwest should be divided into three to five states