Industries
Charles Pillsbury worked in this industry.
Flour industry
Wheat grew well in these areas of MN
Western & Southern MN
Type of farming when you produce one crop to sell mass amounts.
Market Farming
Tall prairie grasses with tangled roots are called
sod
The type of tree the lumber industry used?
White Pine
A gristmill was used in this industry.
Flour industry
In 1880s Minnesota had this many miles of track.
3,000 miles
Produced variety of crops & livestock on farm
Diversified farmer
Millers created this to get rid of the brown flecks in flour.
Middling Purifiers
Settlers could get up to 160 acres after they farmed on it for 5 years law
Homestead Act
Lumber and flour industries built their mills by these.
Rivers and waterfalls
Iron Ore ranges are found in this part of MN
Northern (100 mi west of Duluth)
Only growing enough to supply your family with food is
Subsistence Farming
Settler struggled with lack of money, supplies, hunger and ???
Harsh Winters
New era that railroads brought to Minnesota
Industrialization Era
The iron ore range founded by two brothers.
Mesabi Range
MN's white pine trees diminished, what state did lumber industries go?
Washington
Farmers depended on these types of crops, harvesting enough to sell.
Cash crops
The Grangers banded together because of this common enemy.
Railroads
The Granger was the 1st farmers association but they also started ?
Co-ops
The Washburn-Crosby Company is known for this brand of flour.
Gold Medal Flour
Farming in this county was difficult because of the unbroken prairie land.
Lincoln County
This destroyed much of the crops for 3 years.
Grasshoppers
Grangers helped create this position in government
Officer of Railroad Commissioner
In what year did the lumber industry start to dwindle?
1905