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Vocabulary
Flour
Lumber
Iron
Miscellaneous
100
Industrialization
What is the process of developing large scale, mechanical factories?
100
Flour milling industrialist.
Who is Charles Pillsbury?
100
Frederick Weyerhaeuser.
Who was a lumber industrialist?
100

Who were the ones that chopped tree down in the lumber industry?

lumberjacks

100
Nickname given to Minneapolis.
What is the "Mill City"?
200
A specific branch of business that provides a certain product or service.
What is an industry?
200
Fertile land, wheat, and the Falls of St. Anthony.
What natural resources impacted the flour industry?
200
White Pine
What tree was prized for its high value lumber?
200
Iron mining industrialist.
Who is Henry Oliver?
200

What was the NICKNAME given to the workers that rode down the river on the logs to the sawmill?

river pigs, or river rats.

300
An owner, manager, or investor in a large business.
What is an industrialist?
300

Which jobs were paid the highest.  (not specific. job)

Most dangerous jobs paid highest.
300
Minnesota rivers.
How was lumber transported to the sawmill?
300

What feature of the Mississippi River was used for water power?

What is St. Anthony Falls?

300

Machine that was part of the flour, lumber, and iron industry in Minnesota.

What is the railroad?

400
Strong, durable metal who's main ingredient is the iron taken from Minnesota's iron ore.
What is steel?
400

Middlings purifier did what?

removed the brown flecks to make the flour whiter

400

Northeast MinnesotaWha

Where logging companies cut down white pine or where lumbering was taking place.
400
Natural resource that made transporting the iron ore to the steel mills in the east so efficient.
What is Lake Superior?
400

What area of Mn could you find prairie land where wheat was grown?

South or southwest Minnesota

500

What is the measurement of grain?

Bushel

500

Replaced millstones, improving quality and increasing production of flour?

steel rollers

500

What happened around 1910?

The lumber industry begin to see a rapid decline and lumber companies moved to Washington state.

500

Wealthy businessmen who joined Henry Oliver to form the company called U.S. Steel, in 1901.

Who are Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller?

500

What were 3 thihngs NEEDED for lumber industry to be successful?

rivers, railroads, workers, white pine, hot water pumps, hooks, saws, other tools, St. Anthony Falls or other waterfalls.