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This city became the center of Minnesota's flour milling industry due to its strategic location near waterfalls.
What is Minneapolis?
This type of pine tree found in Minnesota's vast forests was highly valuable for lumber.
What is white pine?
This is what iron ore was used to make, which was highly prized for its strength and long life.
What is steel?
This unit of measurement is used for agricultural crops.
What is a bushel?
This crop was essential for Minnesota's flour milling industry.
What is wheat?
These two machines revolutionized flour milling by improving quality and efficiency. [You only need to name one.]
What are the middlings purifier and steel rollers?
These workers performed dangerous jobs cutting down trees and transporting them down rivers
Who are lumberjacks?
These workers, often recent immigrants, operated large shovels to remove iron ore from deep inside the earth.
Who are miners?
This means to put money into something offering potential profit.
What is invest?
These three natural resources were the foundation of Minnesota's major industries.
What are wheat, white pine forests, and iron ore?
This natural feature at the Falls of St. Anthony provided the power needed for flour mills.
What are waterfalls (or water power)?
This businessman influenced Minnesota's lumber industry.
Who is Frederick Weyerhaeuser?
These three ranges were all important sources of iron ore in Minnesota.
What are the Mesabi, Vermilion, and Cuyuna Ranges?
These are specific branches of business that provide certain goods or services.
What are industries?
This natural feature provided power for all three major Minnesota industries.
What are waterfalls (or water power)?
This businessman made it big by opening flour mills around Minneapolis.
Who is Charles Pillsbury?
These natural transportation highways helped move logs from forests to mills.
What are Minnesota rivers?
This large body of water provided a trading port in Duluth for Minnesota's iron mining industry.
What is Lake Superior?
These are the owners and managers of large businesses.
Who are industrialists?
This geographic feature in northern Minnesota contained vast deposits of iron ore.
What is the Iron Range?
These large farms grew a single crop and expanded rapidly before quickly disappearing due to soil depletion.
What are bonanza farms?
This is what caused the lumber industry to decline in Minnesota.
What is the depletion of white pine forests (much was cut down and not enough new trees were planted)?
These machines replaced steam-powered equipment in iron mining operations.
What are electric shovels and diesel trains?
This is the process of developing large, mechanical factories.
What is industrialization?
According to the text, this is why natural resources were important to Minnesota's growth in these three industries.
What is "each industry was dependent on different natural resources for their foundation and success"?