Time Period
The time period where settlers were coming to Minnesota in large numbers!
What is the 1850s?
The branch that makes laws.
The settler who came to Minnesota from Sweden.
A written document outlining how a state or country is organized.
What is a constitution?
The year Minnesota became a territory.
What is 1849?
The branch that enforces laws?
What is Executive?
The settler who was the first schoolteacher in St. Paul.
Who is Harriet Bishop?
First territorial governor of Minnesota.
Who is Alexander Ramsey?
The year Minnesota becomes a state.
What is 1858?
The branch that evaluates laws.
What is Judicial?
Large boats that carried settlers to Minnesota.
What are steamboats?
Someone who encouraged settlers to move to Minnesota.
Who is a recruiter?
A person who comes into a country to live there
Who is an immigrant?
The leader of the Executive branch in the Minnesota.
Who is the Governor?
What is one form of transportation used in Minnesota during the 1850s?
- by foot
- steamboats
- oxchart, wagon
- canoe
Reason why Europeans immigrated to the United States
What is war, famine, lack of jobs, or in search of a better life
Why did the U.S. government want native (Dakota & Ojibwe) land?
- They could expand their territory and power.
- They could sell the land to settlers to make money.
The leader of the Judicial branch in the United States.
What is Supreme Court?
Treaties in the 1850s with this group opened up land in Northern Minnesota to settlers
Who are Ojibwe?
A system of government in which power is divided between 3 branches.