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.
Evidence that Harriet Bishop felt St. Paul not "civilized."
What is: said her students "were a field to be cultivated" and "a garden of untrained flowers to be tended"?
What is established/started many organizations such as: St. Paul's first Sunday School, a group against alcohol, and women's organizations that raised money for community projects?
What is belonging to groups such as: St. Paul Circle of Industry, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, and the MN Women's Suffrage Association?
What is her hurtful words against American Indians?
The Advantages of becoming a state. (name at least 2.)
What is controlling its own finances & budget,
more independent than a territory,
more independence to deal with private companies such as railroads,
had more representatives in U.S. Congress.
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?
Reasons immigrants came to Minnesota instead of other states. (name at least 2)
What is: they already had friends and family in MN?
What is: there were large numbers of immigrants from their home country in MN?
What is: were influenced by the way friends, and recruiters described the climate and landscape?
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?
The signing of treaties in 1851, 1854, 1855.
What took land away from the American Indians and opened up MN to expansion(land) to the European Americans to settle on.
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
The effects of Europe American settlers on Native Americans.(name at least 2)
What is the signing of treaties and taking land from Native Americans?
What is Settlers moved onto the land, building homes, towns, and farms?
What is by 1855 the settlers outnumbered the American Indians for the first time?
What is sometimes violated the treatiesby moving onto the land before it was legal and other violations?
What is Many reservations created still exist today.
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.
The challenges that Hans Mattson faced in his first year. (name at least 2)
What is dangerous, freezing weather?
What is lack of roads & difficult navigation?
What is supplies ran out?