| A | B |
| Ojibwa ways of life | birchbark canoes, gathered food, grew few veggies |
| Ojibwa then and now | live, hunt, and fish in the Great Lakes Region |
| Joliet and Marquette | explored Midwest rivers |
| Chicago and Sault Saint Marie | started out as forts and trading posts |
| fur trading | started trading posts, cities grew around forts, Natives settled near the forts |
| pioneers | started farms, claimed land, built houses |
| sod houses | were hard to keep clean |
| John Deere solved the problem | of the prairie sod being hard to plow |
| during drought times | farms can turn to dust and blow away |
| Cohokia | had mounds for burials, close to rivers, were meeting places |
| Jefferson wanted a water route | to expand trade |
| Lewis and Clark | searched for a water route, asked Natives to trade, and started their trip at St. Louis |
| steamships helped farmers | ship their grain to St. Louis |
| rail shipping has the advantage of | being capable of being built anywhere |
| interstate highways began | in 1950's |