THE MIDWEST

The region is located in Great Plains ( fertile, flat land, no hills, no forests)

STATES OF THE MIDWEST

1. Michigan

2. Ohio

3. Indiana

4. Illinois

5. Wisconsin

6. Minnesota

7. Iowa

8. Missouri

9. North Dakota

10. South Dakota

11. Nebraska

12. Kansas

MIDWEST is America

Agriculture of American Midwest

• The region lies in the area called the Central Basin – open treeless grassland called prairie.

• Its bounded by the Ohio River, though Great Plains to the Rockies

• More than half of nation's wheat and oat

• Soybeans

• Corn – the most important of all America's crops, the main agricultural product (alcohol fuel, animal food)

• Corn Belt

Inventions:

• A steel plow ( plough)

• Barbed wire – changed open

Great number of German ppl decided to move to the Midwest.

Nationalities that settled in the region

• Swedes – introduced a log cabin – a typical dwelling for the frontier

• Germans – created a typical barn

• Scots and Irish – potato cultivation

• Asian people – soybean

a pioneer's wagon – wóz pionieria

The Midwest is called the base of American industry

• The leading manifacturing industries are:

• chemical manufacturing

• machinery ----

• food ----

• transportation equipment

The most important industrial cities of the Midwest

• Chicago – the 'Windy City' and 3^rd largest city in USA

• Detroit – the 'Motor City', a.k.a. 'Motown'

Jackowo - all polish shops are located in there.

The Cathedral of St. Jack

Chicago:

• humid climate

• located on the southwest shore of Michigan Lake

• The world's first skyscraper was built in Chicago in 1884

• steel production

Detroit – heart of the automobile industry

• It had a special start as it began as a wagonmaking town using wood from forests that covered

St.Louis:

• In the past it was the starting point of westward journeys

• Gateway to the west

• This was commemorated by the steel arch built in 1965

Dodge City

• was a center for buffalo hunters and cowboys ( buffalo hunters were killing animals only for sport )

The Plains Indians had hunted buffalo which numbered close to 60 mln in the early 1800's as a food mainstay

Landmark of the Midwest

• Mount Rushmore in the South Dakota in Black Hills

• called – The Shrine of Democracy

• George Washington ( 1^st president)

• Thomas Jefferson ( gave the country independence)

• Theodore Roosevelt ( created such a powerful country in the field of economy )

• and Abraham Lincoln, sculpted by Gutzon Borglum ( 18m high); worked on the sculpture about 5 years