Vocabulary
Flats
Mills
Mining
Becoming an American
100
Of or relating to the city.
What is Urban?
100
A group of shacks that 500 families of recent immigrants lived.
What is the Bohemian Flats?
100
The immigrants had the same language.
What is the reason many immigrants lived by each other?
100
How the miners got paid on the mining ranges.
What is miners were paid for how much iron they mined?
100
A person born or naturalized into a country, who is entitled to the rights provided by its government
What is Citizen?
200
of or relating to the countryside.
What is rural?
200
Where city the flats were located.
What is Minneapolis?
200
Two adjectives describing the woolen mill in Minnesota.
What is hot, damp, bad pay, hard, long hours.
200

Finland, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, Slovakia, Bulgaria, or Poland.

What were one of the countries that people at the mines in MN emigrated from.

200

How old do you have to be to be naturalized?

18 

300
people who work for hourly wages, usually in jobs that require physical labor.
What is working class?
300
The river that the flats were located in the spring.
What is the Mississippi?
300
A recent immigrant in MN in the 1900s that worked in the woolen mill.
Who is Stefan Jakubs?
300

25,000 people

What is the number of people living in Northern MN by the 1900s that were European Americans

300
The length of time you have to live in the US to become a citizen
What is 5 years?
400
an organization that helps workers get better wages and working conditions.
What is a labor union?
400
People who lived in the flats had to move every spring because of this.
What is river flooding?
400
The three types mills we read about in our books.
What is a lumber, woolen, or flour mill?
400
The two reasons the workers went on strike.
What is bad conditions (hard work) and bad pay?
400
Two tests you have to pass in order to be a citizen.
What are the Civics test and English test?
500
a refusal to work in order to force an employer to agree to demands
What is a strike?
500
One of the countries that people who lived in the flats came from.
What is Germany, Bohemia, OR Slovakia?
500
This person spoke out for better pay and workers rights for people in MN by writing, public speaking, and going under cover.
Who is Eva McDonald Valesh (or Eva Gay)?
500

A worker who fought for mining rights and eventually couldn't get hired.

Who is Anton Antilla?

500
How children become citizens.
What is their parents become citizens?
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