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This document is a study guide for a social studies chapter about exploring the Midwest. It includes a multiple choice section to test knowledge about key topics like industrialization, transportation developments, and Native American groups. A sequencing section focuses on ordering important events and figures. A map reading exercise involves analyzing a historical map. Short answer questions assess understanding of how buffalo were used by Native Americans, weather impacts on the Midwest, and why Detroit became a center for the automobile industry. The guide directs students to also review online flashcards for additional preparation.

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SSCH 8studyguide

This document is a study guide for a social studies chapter about exploring the Midwest. It includes a multiple choice section to test knowledge about key topics like industrialization, transportation developments, and Native American groups. A sequencing section focuses on ordering important events and figures. A map reading exercise involves analyzing a historical map. Short answer questions assess understanding of how buffalo were used by Native Americans, weather impacts on the Midwest, and why Detroit became a center for the automobile industry. The guide directs students to also review online flashcards for additional preparation.

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Name: ________________________________________Chapter 8: Exploring the Midwest

SS Study Guide

Chapter 8: Exploring the Midwest


SS Study Guide
Test Date: _____________________________
Part One: Multiple Choice
1.) What is the process in which a product is made more quickly and cheaply
by using machines called? (p. 267) ______________________________
2.) What did Henry Ford help set-up in Detroit that changed the automobile
industry? (p. 267) ____________________________________________
3.) What is an entrepreneur? (p. 266) _______________________________
___________________________________________________________
4.) What Midwest city connected ten major railroad lines in the mid 1800s?
(p. 266) ____________________________________________________
5.) What mode of transportation provided an easier way for settlers to reach
the Midwest? (p. 266) ________________________________________
6.) What is the movement of people from one place to another called? (p.
265) ______________________________________________________
7.) Earlier settlers of the Great Plains built their homes mainly of what
product? (p. 258) ____________________________________________
8.) What group moved from place to place following herds of buffalo in an
effort to adapt to living on the Great Plains? (p. 255) ________________
9.) What is an abundant mineral in the Midwest region? (p. 250) _________

Name: ________________________________________Chapter 8: Exploring the Midwest


SS Study Guide

___________________________________________________________
10.) What is a long period of little or no rain called? (p. 249) ___________
11.)

What is a type of landform covered mostly with grasses and flowers

called? (p. 247) ______________________________________________


12.) How were the Great Lakes formed? (p. 247) ____________________
___________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________
Part Two: Sequencing/Flow Chart
Make sure you can sequence events from the chapter in order (Henry Ford, Sioux,
and railroads). See p. 252-253 for review.
Part Three: Historical Map
Make sure you can read a historical map. See p. 260-261 for review.
Part Four: Short Answer
1.) Name 3 ways in which Native Americans of the Great Plains used buffalo.
(p. 255)
a. _______________________________________________________
b. _______________________________________________________
c. _______________________________________________________
2.) What are two ways that tornados affect the Midwest? (p. 249)
a. ________________________________________________________
b. ________________________________________________________

Name: ________________________________________Chapter 8: Exploring the Midwest


SS Study Guide

3.) Why did Detroit, Michigan, become the center of the nations automobile
industry? (pp. 267-268) __________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________
Dont forget to review the Quizlet online too! Good Luck!

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