Unit 4 Ch. 8 Study Guide
• The Great Lake
States
• Test—
Basic Information
• Multiple choice!
Marquette and Joliet explored
the Great Lakes region to try
and find the Mississippi River.
Fighting over ownership of the
Ohio River valley lead to the
French and Indian War.
The Northwest Territory includes the lands
west of the Pennsylvania and east of the
Mississippi River, it was divided into
townships and sold to settlers, and included
the lands north of the Ohio River and south
of the Great Lakes. It was not however the
first area where the French built
settlements.
The United States decided to
survey the Northwest Territory
to better plan for the
settlement of the territory.
The Great Lakes formed as a
result of glaciers.
The Illinois Waterway and the
Illinois River connect Lake
Michigan with the Mississippi
River.
Steel mills were built along the
Great Lakes because both iron
ore and coal were found in nearby
states.
Most manufactured goods today
are made on assembly lines.
A keelboat, steamboat, and
barge could travel upstream
against a river's current. A
flatboat could not.
In the Northwest Territory, one
section in each township was
set aside for a school.
Vocabulary Fill in…
• Know these words!
An ordinance is a set of laws.
Settlers on the frontier were
often surrounded by wilderness.
Ore is rock that contains one or
more kinds of minerals.
The world's first skyscraper was
built in Chicago in 1885.
Goods shipped on rivers are
often called freight.
A barge is a flat-bottomed
boat used mostly on rivers
and other inland waterways.
MAKE A THOUGHTFUL
DECISION
• Pick two out of the four! If you do all four,
you may earn bonus points!
Listed below are four decisions
people have made during the
history of the Great Lakes
region. Choose any two and in
an answer for each one, explain
the consequences (results) of
that decision.
1. In 1673, French leaders in what is
today Canada decided to send an
expedition to explore the areas south of
the Great Lakes.
French traders
moved to the Great
Lakes region, set
up trading posts
that later became
towns and cities.
2. The United States government
decided to sell land in the
Northwest Territory for as little as a
dollar per acre.
Many people
moved to the
NW Territory
in hopes of
buying their
own land.
3. Automobile manufacturers
decided to use mass
production in their factories.
Cars could
be produced
faster and
cheaper,
which made
the industry
grow!
4. People decided to build locks
and dams along the Mississippi
River in the Great Lakes region.
Navigation on
the Mississippi
improved,
which helped
trade and
industry grow!
Bring your river chart to class for
the test!
ESSAY
1 a one-paragraph essay
(made up of at least 4
sentences), answer the
following question (there are
two parts).
1.Mass production and the
assembly line were two
important developments in
American industry. In a oneparagraph essay, explain what
they are AND why they are
important.
• Mass production is…A way of manufacturing in
which many items that are identical can be made
quickly and cheaply.
• Assembly line is… A line of workers and
machines along which a product moves as it is
put together one step at a time.
• They helped to make products cheaper and
faster so more people could afford to buy the
products.
Study!