Who studies events from the past and provides answers to who was involved and when things happened?
What would a historian use as a primary source?
What would a historian use as a secondary source?
Why was the Erie canal built?
What year was the Erie canal completed?
What was the effect of the French exploration?
Why did the French explorers come to the Great Lakes?
The French explorers found what when they came to the Great Lakes.
Why was beaver fur important to the French?
What year did the French begin exploring Michigan?
Name one type of home the Anishnabeg lived in.
What is one reason to read traditional American Indian stories?
What is an overall theme found in indian stories and legends?
Why did the American Indians agree to trade with the French?
What is a person called who travels to a new place and teachers their religion to them?
Name a challenge that early settlers in MI faced?
Name another challenge that early settlers in MI faced?
Why did more people decide to come to Michgian?
What did people believe that Michigan land was like?
Name the sequence of events in early Michigan history.
Why did the United States congress refuse to allow MI to become a state? Give one reason.
Why did the United States congress refuse to allow MI to become a state? Give another reason why.
What was the problem with the Toledo strip?
How was the Toledo strip problem resolved?
Governor Mason decided to apply for Michigan statehood in what year?
Historian
Original Letters
Biography
It provided a way to move goods from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes region.
The canal was finished in 1825
The fur trade began.
The main reason was to find a trade route to China.
The French explorers found a lot of beavers.
In France, there were not many beavers. Also, they needed the beaver furs to make beaver hats.
Exploration began around 1500.
They lived in wigwams.
We can learn about their beliefs.
There is a great spirit who helps them.
They wanted French goods (pots, knives and so on).
They are called missionaries.
They had to clear the land.
They had to build their houses out of the logs they cut down.
The Erie canal was built, so it was easier for people and goods to come here.
They thought it was a swamp land.
Exploration, Settlement, Statehood
The conflict over the Toledo strip.
Michigan needs 60,000 people to become a state.
Ohio and Michigan wanted the same small strip of land between the 2 states.
Michigan was given the Upper Peninsula and Ohio given the Toledo strip.
He applied in 1834.
