Vocabulary
What do we call a farmer who broke prairie soil to plant crops?
Sobuster
What service did farmers depend on railroads for?
Shipping crops
Who came to Minnesota by the thousands because of the opportunity to get land and farm?
Settlers
This document begins with the words “We the People.”
What is the Constitution?
He was a famous general who became ruler of the Roman Empire.
Who is Julius Caesar?
What do you call families who produced enough food to feed themselves but not enough to sell at market?
Subsistence Farming
What happened because freight rates were high?
Farmers went into debt
What was a nickname given to the first export crop to affect Minnesota's economy? This crop changed the landscape of Minnesota.
King Wheat
The original 13 colonies were ruled by this European country.
Great Britain
A government ruled by a king or queen.
What is a monarchy?
What do we call someone who buys and sells land, hoping to make a profit.
A land speculator
What was the name for groups of farmers who worked together?
The Grange Association
Who were subsistence farmers in Lincoln county who turned into diversified farmers? Their life was an example of a typical homesteader in the late 1800s.
John and Sarah Tainter
This purchase in 1803 doubled the size of the United States.
What is the Lousiana Purchase?
This deadly disease killed millions in Europe during the Middle Ages.
What is the Black Death (Bubonic Plague)?
What do we call an organization formed to help its members buy or sell products as a large group in order to get better prices?
A cooperative
What famous nickname was James J. Hill known by?
The Empire Builder
What is the 1862 law that provided up to 160 acres of land to settlers who would live on it and farm it for five years?
The Homestead Act
The movement that worked to end segregation and gain equal rights during the 1950s–60s.
What is the Civil Rights Movement?
He reached the Americas in 1492 while searching for a route to Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
What is it called to control or adjust something in order to change how it works?
To regulate
How did regulation help farmers?
Lowered or controlled prices
What are the insects that fly in swarms and eat all the plant life in an area?
Grasshoppers/Locusts
This amendment ended slavery in the United States.
The global conflict fought from 1939–1945.
What is WW2?