Urban vs. Rural
Define urban OR rural
Urban = "of or relating to the city" Rural= "of or relating to the countryside"
I worked in the North Star Woolen Mill and lived in the Bohemian Flats
Who is Stefan Jakub?
How the miners got paid on the mining ranges.
What is miners were paid for how much iron they mined?
Which of the following is a country that immigrants did NOT come to Minnesota from in the late 1800s?
Germany, Slovakia, Poland, Mexico
What is Mexico?
Which was growing faster in the Minnesota in the early 1900s: urban setting or rural?
What is urban (farmland was filling up and immigrants were looking for jobs in the city)?
I was an iron miner who developed a bit of a reputation as a trouble maker after I led my fellow miners to strike in 1907.
Who is Anton Antilla?
Two adjectives describing work in the woolen mill in Minnesota.
What is hot, damp, dim, loud, bad pay, hard, long hours.
Choose all of the reasons immigrants might choose to live in communities with others from the same country:
a. they have similar amounts of children
b. they have similar customs and traditions
c. they all work at the mine
d. they speak the same language
What is B and D
A group of shacks that 500 families of recent immigrants lived.
What is Bohemian Flats
We are the people who work for hourly wages, usually in jobs that require physical labor.
What is the working class?
Many strikes occurred in the late 1800s into the early 1900s. Name three different years a strike occurred.
What is: 1888, 1894, 1907, 1916, 1917
Name two jobs that females could hold in Minneapolis around 1900.
What is working in a factory (very few did this), dressmaking, teaching, nursing, domestic servant, restaurant server, and sales clerk.
This city boomed because of railroads, shipping, and iron ore
What is Duluth?
I was a state representative from Hawley, MN who immigrated to Minnesota from Norway.
Who is Knud Wefald?
The two reasons the workers went on strike.
What is bad conditions (hard work) and bad pay?
Name two dangers faced while working in the mines:
This is the country that nearly all citizens of the Bohemian Flats immigrated from.
What is Slovakia?
Name two ways Eva McDonald Valesh advocated for workers in the Twin Cities.
What is 1.wrote newspaper articles exposing workers’ long hours, unhealthy working conditions, and low wages. 2. went undercover to get detailed information about the working conditions. 3.sparked a factory worker’s strike. 4. public speaker for the labor movement.
Name three goals of the Labor Movement:
What is:
8-hr workday,5-day workweek
limit or end child labor
minimum wage set by law
safe and clean workspaces
paid vacation and sick time
employers had to pay wages and medical costs for workers injured on the job.
How were the citizens of the Bohemian Flats affected by the Mississippi river nearby?
What is it would melt and flood each spring?