Movements
Decades
MN Businesses/ Industries
Changing MN
Whole year???
100

A person who took action to make changes

Who is an activist?

100

the decade Earth Day was founded, AIM took over a Navy Air Base, and Disco was popular

What was the 1970's?

100

Minnesota based department stores

What is Target?

100

Date of terrorist attack on the US that collapsed the World Trade Center buildings

What is September 11, 2001 (9-11-2001)?

100

the first group of people believed to have settled in MN

Who are the Dakota?

200

give 2 examples of protests

What are boycotts, marches, sit-ins, legal action, take over of gov. lands, ...?

200

The decade of 9-11, the Iphone, and you were probably born

What was the 2000's?

200

MN company that specializes in electronics

What is Best Buy?

200

Name 2 countries that fighting has taken place in  as part of the war on terror

What is Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria...?

200

When Minnesota became a state

What is May 11, 1858?

300

To separate people based on race

What is segregation?

300

The decade of getting a man to the moon, Woodstock, and the first US troops were sent to Vietnam

What was the 1960's?

300

MN company that invented the post-it note

What is 3M?

300

Changes in the US that have happened because of the 9-11 attacks.

What is more security in airports and sporting events, fear of terrorist attacks, US is more involved overseas, war in Afghanistan, increase defense technologies...?

300

This war was fought in MN at the same time as the American Civil War

What is the US-Dakota War?

400

The group that took over the Twin Cities Naval Air Station

Who was AIM?

400

The decade of grunge, hip-hop, CD's, the internet, and the first Gulf War

What was the 90's?

400

MN company that invented the pacemaker

What is Medtronic?

400

This place in Northern MN was created as a result of the Conservation Movement.

What is the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW)?

400

The original name of St. Paul, MN

What was Pigs Eye Landing?

500

Made it illegal to discriminate based on gender

What is Title IX?

500

The decade of hair-metal, rap, the Twins win their first world series, and Nintendo

What was the 1980's?

500

Fuel similar to gasoline made from corn

What is ethanol?

500

This Vice President who helped fight segregation in MN and was an important part of getting the 1964 Civil Rights Act passed

Who was Hubert H. Humphrey?

500

the state of Minnesota's first governor

Who was Henry Sibley?