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Vocabulary
100

He started a large flour milling industry in Minnesota.

Who was Charles Pillsbury or Cadwaller Washburn. 

100

What are two of the three  countries that contributed the largest number of immigrants to Minnesota from 1880-1920 

Sweden, Norway, Germany  

100

A thick tangle of roots and soil that had to be broken before crops could be planted. 

Sod

100

The name of the place where the wood was cut and turned into lumber that could be used for building things.

What is the sawmill?

100
To put money into something offering potential profit.
What is "invest"?
200

In which season were trees cut down in MN lumber forests?

Winter

200

Stefan Jakub's home country

Slovakia

200

In order to claim land under the Homestead Act, how long did settlers have to live on the land?

5 years

200

The natural resource essential to the milling and lumber mills. 

Rivers (waterfalls) 

200
Rock or mineral from which iron can be removed.
What is "iron ore"?
300
This city's nickname is "Mill City"

Minneapolis 

300

Immigrants were often part of what group (vocab word from Chapter 12)

Working Class

300

The King of Minnesota's cash crops

Wheat

300
The material made from iron ore.
What is steel?
300
The process of developing large-scale, mechanical factories.
What is "industrialization"?
400

In which region of MN are the Iron ore mines?

North/North East

400
Two requirements to become a citizen in the U.S.

Be over 18, have lived in the US for 5 years, pass an english and civics test. 

400

The treaty that gave the US government 21 million acres of land in southern Minnesota that prompted immigration to the area. 

The Treaty of Traverse de Sioux


400

The milling company owned by Washburn changed it's name to what?

General Mills

400

Of or relating to city areas

Urban

500
A machine that removed the brown flecks from the flour.
What is the middlings purifier?
500
He was a big investor in Minnesota's lumber industry.
Who was Frederick Weyerhaeuser?
500

This is the term for the type of farming where families would only produce enough food to feed their family

Subsistance Farming

500
The tree that was used for hundreds of years in the lumber industry.
What is the white pine?
500

To become a citizen

Naturalization