Help! Midwestern History Questions?

Abbie

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I'm stumped on a few of my questions for my 200 question worksheet....can anybody help me out? Anything is appreciated! Thanks!

1. city near the site of a complete mammoth skeleton almost 15,000 years old
2. city founded as the center of French fur trade in the upper Midwest
3. City nicknamed the "American Munich", a center of German American settlement
4. city that was nicknamed "Prairie Village" on the Underground Railroad
5. A city that became the second-largest city in the Midwest during the Civil War
6. City in Ohio that was the largest in the Midwest at the start of Civil War (either Cincinnati or Cleveland)
7. City connected by a bridge to the rest of the U.S. only a half a century ago

*The answers are all cities in the Midwest**

8. Who was the first French explorer into the Midwest?
9. The author of a famous book about their Wisconsin years in the 1830s
10. The name for descendants of Native Americans and Europeans
11. We were Spanish explorers, the first Europeans in the Midwest - if briefly - in the ____ (what century)
12. What century did French Canadian explorers first come to the Midwest?
13. The Metis dominated upper Midwestern culture until the (decade)

Any help is appreciated. Thank you!
 
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