Chapter 8
A Crop Duster Tour of the Midwest
Farmers in the Midwest grow a lot of
“America’s Breadbasket”
wheat we use to make bread.
- Kansas & North Dakota
Dairy Farming
“Gateway to the West”
“Corn State”
Raising cows to produce milk
- Wisconsin
St. Louis, Missouri
- Pioneers (the first people to
make their homes in the west)
started their journey from here.
Iowa
- Able to grow a lot of corn in
the flat, fertile soil
Cowboys
Dodge City, Kansas
- In the 1870s cowboys used to
drive cattle from Texas to
Dodge City.
Chapter 8
A Crop Duster Tour of the Midwest
Mt. Rushmore
Huge monument carved into the rock
showing the faces of four American
presidents.
- George Washington
- Thomas Jefferson
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Abraham Lincoln
South Dakota
Henry Ford
Changed the way cars are made
- Built cars in Detroit, Michigan
- Tried to figure out how to lower
the cost of making his cars
- Created the assembly line
- Cut the time needed to build
- a car from 12 hours to 93 minutes!
Transportation Hub
Chicago, Illinois
- Center for moving goods and
people
- Railroads, highways, airports,
rivers, and lakes move more
people and goods into and out of
Chicago than any other American
City
- 73 million passengers pass through
the O’Hare airport in one year
Blizzards
Hailstorms
Heavy snow & wind
hail stones (ice)
Tornado
Swirling windstorm