Mrs. Baker's 4th Grade



Chapter 8 Outline66675267335Lesson 3 Transportation in the Midwest (p. 264-269)What to Know: How did changing transportation affect the Midwest?Vocabularyassembly line, p. 264 _______________________________________________________________________________________________________entrepreneur, p. 266 ______________________________________________________________________________________________________flatboat, p. 264 __________________________________________________________________________________________________________industrial economy, p. 268 __________________________________________________________________________________________________mass production, p. 267 ____________________________________________________________________________________________________migration, p. 265 __________________________________________________________________________________________________________steamboat, p. 265 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________stockyard, p. 266 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________River HighwaysSettlers used the rivers of the Midwest for ______________________ to the west.Moving West Many settlers took flatboats to travel down river. A flatboat has no _______________, so they could only be used to travel downstream.At the end of the trip, flatboats were _______________ for their lumber.In the late 1700s _______________ _______________ developed the steamboat.A steamboat is powered by a _______________ _______________.The engine turned a large ________________ _______________ which caused the boat to move.3419475608330The picture shows a steamboat and a flatboat. Why were the steamboats a better way to travel? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________RailroadsRailroad TownsRailroads provided an _______________ way for settlers to reach the Midwest.By 1856, _______________, Illinois connected ten major railroad lines.New Businesses A person who starts a new business is an ____________________.One new business dealt with selling cattle. When the cattle were brought to town they were held in a _______________ where they were bought or sold and held for shipment._______________ _______________ opened one of the largest stockyards in the region in Abilene, Kansas._______________ __________ took the cattle from the stockyards to cities in East.Industries GrowPort CitiesExamples of river port cities are ______. _____________, Missouri; ____________________, Ohio; and ____________________, Minnesota.Examples of Great Lake port cities are _______________, Illinois; ____________________, Ohio; and _______________, Michigan.The Automobile Industry_______________, Michigan became the center of the nation’s automobile industry in the early 1900s._______________ _______________ set up an assembly line in his automobile factory.The assembly line made _______________ ___________________, (making a product quickly and cheaply by using machines) possible.Mass Production Grows Other industries began using mass production. By the mid-1900s, an ____________________ _______________ had developed where most goods were made by machines in factories. ................
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