| A | B |
| Where is the climate milder? | Great Lakes |
| Where is wheat the major crop? | Great Plains |
| Where is corn the major crop? | Central Plains |
| Why is the MW very cold in the winter? | no mountains to block the air |
| The largest deposits of iron in the MW are found in | Minnesota |
| Most iron in the MW is mined by | bulldozing open pits |
| Between 1880 -1910 the demand for steel jumped because | steel was needed to make cars, bridges, and buildings |
| He led the US army attack on the Lakota at Little Bighorn? | George Custer |
| He invented the steel plow. | John Deere |
| He set up the French trading post that later became the city of Chicago. | Jean Baptistie Point du Sable |
| He was the future President whose family moved from Kentucky to the Indiana frontier. | Abraham Lincoln |
| He was the businessman whose switch to mass production made his cars popular and affordable. | Henry Ford |
| Many immigrants pushed west because land on the Atlantic coast was | costly |
| Pioneers were able to farm the prairies of the Interior Plains by use of the | steel plow |
| The life of the Lakota in the 1700s was changed by the arrival of the | horse |
| In the early 1900s many African Americans moved north in the | Great Migration |