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Which group of Native Americans have lived in Minnesota longer than any other group of people?

Dakota

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What was the location called where the natives would live by the maple trees during the spring?

Sugar camps

100

According to evolutionists, what extended down beyond what is now Minnesota?

Glaciers

100

Who owned a large flour milling company in Minnesota?

Charles Pillsbury

200

Who carried and canoed the furs from the interior posts to the trade posts?

Voyageurs 

200
The U.S. built what by the river to protect the local fur trade?

Fort Snelling

200

Most furs were transported by what? 

Canoe/river

200

For many years, Native Americans used what to keep their history alive?

Oral history

300

Who were the natives that adopted many European American customs, including attending church and raising livestock? 

Farm Dakota

300

What was a poor neighborhood in Minneapolis?

Bohemian Flats

300

What was the home called that natives often lived in during the winter?

Wigwam

300

What is it called to, "have the knowledge and skills that enhance a person's ability to earn income"?

Human capital

400

Who owned a railroad company and was known as the "Empire Builder"?

James J. Hill

400

Where did the first two treaties with the Dakota people take place?

Traverse des Sioux and Mendota

400

Some enslaved servants were brought to Minnesota by vacationing Southerners, what was this vacation up North called?

Fashionable Tour

400

What is the practice of producing the variety of crops and livestock on one farm?

Diversified farming

500

Who was the first governor of Minnesota?

Henry Hastings Sibley

500

What were the three main industries in Minnesota?

Flour milling, lumber, and iron mining

500

What war started as a result of loss of land through treaties, lack of food/refusal to give the Dakota food, being forced to give up their traditional lifestyle, and annuity payments being late?

The U.S. - Dakota War of 1862

500

What are the three branches of government?

Legislative, executive, and judicial