| A | B |
|---|
| agribusiness | large farm owned by company |
| teepee | type of dwelling made of animal hides |
| Great Migration | movement of many African Americans from SE to MW for jobs |
| mass production | manufacturing large numbers of goods using identical parts |
| open-pit mining | method of using power shovels to dig out the earth |
| tornado | whirling funnel of wind that moves at great speed |
| pioneer | a new settler that moved to the frontier |
| conestoga wagon | covered vehicle in which pioneers travelled |
| robot | computer controlled machines that do the work of people |
| lake effect | moderate summers and winters due to location |
| drought | long period of time with no precipitation |
| ore | rock that contains a metal such as iron |
| Mount Rushmore | stone monument in SD of 4 presidents |
| prairie | flat area thickly covered with grasses |
| wheat | main crop of Great Plains |
| corn | main crop of the Central Plains |
| reclamation | returning the land to its original shape replacing trees |
| competition from other countries | reason for major change in steel industry |
| frontier | edge of a settled area |
| Chicago | originally a trading post founded by Jean Baptiste Point du Sable |
| Abraham Lincoln | 16th president during the Civil War 1861- 1865 |
| John Deere - blacksmith | invented the plow made of steel in 1830's |
| Lakota | never had permanent homes, but followed the buffalo |
| Iowa's main crop | corn |
| North Dakota's main crop | wheat |
| Minnesota's main ore | iron |
| South Dakota's main precious metal | gold & uranium |
| Indiana is known for | limestone & factories |
| Detroit's main industry | automobile production |
| Wisconsin's main products | cheese & milk |
| Ohio, Missouri, Nebraska | many steel mills |
| Chicago, IL | site of O'Hare Airport |
| Lt. Col. George Custer | fought the Lakota at Little Big Horn and lost |
| robots - benefit | do more work in less time than a human |
| robots - negative effect | fewer jobs for human workers |
| Henry Ford | invented the automobile & the assembly line |
| Lakota and the buffalo | Lakota used the buffalo for many of their needs |
| buffalo meat | ate what they needed & dried strips to save for winter |
| buffalo hides | used for clothing & teepees |
| buffalo bones | used for needles & arrowheads |
| buffalo tails | used for flyswatters |
| buffalo hair | used to make rope |
| buffalo horns | used to make spoons & headdresses |
