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Vocabulary
Immigrants
Labor
Cities
Miscellaneous
100

Another name for an urban area

What is metropolitan area?


100
This country had the highest population of immigrants living in Minnesota by 1920.
What is Sweden?
100
An organization that helps workers get better wages and working conditions.
What is a labor union?
100
Because there was a high demand for unskilled laborers in the mills and factories.
What was the main reason Minnesota immigrants moved to urban areas at the turn of the twentieth century?
100
Price for a root beer float in 1900?
What is five cents?
200

Area of farms and small towns in Minnesota

What is Rural?

200
World War I caused this country's immigration numbers to decline steadily in the early 1900's.
What is Germany?
200

A refusal to work in order to force an employer to agree to demands

What is a strike?

200
Working class, Slavic settlement on the banks of the Mississippi River.
What is Bohemian Flats?
200
Highest payed working class job, at $3.80 per day.
What is flour miller?
300

Collar warn by working class citizens.

What is a blue collar?

300
This country's immigrants were negatively stereotyped as drunken brawlers and criminals.
What is Ireland?
300
Wrote about the long hours, unhealthy working conditions, and low wages facing factory and mill workers.
Who was Eva McDonald Valesh?
300

Industries leading to a Duluth boom?

Railroads, shipping, and iron ore.

300
State Representative from Hawley, Minnesota?
Who is Knud Wefald?
400

A period of rapid growth in population or economic activity

What is a Boom?

400
Shared language, food, customs, and religion.
Why did immigrants settle in the same communities?
400

What were the goals of the labor movement in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

8-hour work day, 5-day work week. Limit or end child labor. Minimum wage set by law. Safe and clean workplace required by law. Paid vacation and sick leave. Employer required to pay for injuries on the job.

400
Major iron mining city on the Mesabi Range.
What is Hibbing?
400
Traditional jobs included dressmaking, teaching, and nursing. Others occupations included domestic servants, restaurant servers, and sales clerks.
What jobs were available for woman in the early 1900s?
500

The process of becoming an American citizen.

What is naturalization?

500
Name given to immigrants from "the old country". (Czechoslovakia, Austria, Croatia, and Hungary)
What is Bohemian? What is Slovak?
500
"Union troublemaker" who helped lead the miners strike of 1907.
What is Anton Antilla?
500
Men without homes or families in the industrial cities stayed here and payed for food and shelter.
What are boardinghouses?
500
Slovak who worked in the North Star Woolen Mill.
Who is Stefan Jakub?