Which group of Native Americans have lived in Minnesota longer than any other group of people?
Dakota
What was the location called where the natives would live by the maple trees during the spring?
Sugar camps
According to evolutionists, what extended down beyond what is now Minnesota?
Glaciers
Who owned a large flour milling company in Minnesota?
Charles Pillsbury
Who carried and canoed the furs from the interior posts to the trade posts?
Voyageurs
Fort Snelling
Most furs were transported by what?
Canoe/river
For many years, Native Americans used what to keep their history alive?
Oral history
Who were the natives that adopted many European American customs, including attending church and raising livestock?
Farm Dakota
What was a poor neighborhood in Minneapolis?
Bohemian Flats
What was the home called that natives often lived in during the winter?
Wigwam
What is it called to, "have the knowledge and skills that enhance a person's ability to earn income"?
Human capital
Who owned a railroad company and was known as the "Empire Builder"?
James J. Hill
Where did the first two treaties with the Dakota people take place?
Traverse des Sioux and Mendota
Some enslaved servants were brought to Minnesota by vacationing Southerners, what was this vacation up North called?
Fashionable Tour
What is the practice of producing the variety of crops and livestock on one farm?
Diversified farming
Who was the first governor of Minnesota?
Henry Hastings Sibley
What were the three main industries in Minnesota?
Flour milling, lumber, and iron mining
What war started as a result of loss of land through treaties, lack of food/refusal to give the Dakota food, being forced to give up their traditional lifestyle, and annuity payments being late?
The U.S. - Dakota War of 1862
What are the three branches of government?
Legislative, executive, and judicial