Prairie Life
Growing enough crops to feed ones family
What is Subsistence Farming?
Founder of Pillsbury Flour Company
Who is Charles Pillsbury?
A legal resident of a Country
What is a Citizen?
Community that has high population density and large buildings.
What are Urban Communities?
money that is paid to employees as income.
What are wages?
the main crop grown on Minnesota’s big farms
What is Wheat?
Pine Trees, Waterfalls, and Rivers are Natural Resources important to this industry.
What is the Lumber Industry?
A citizen who is granted citizenship because they were born in the US
What is a Native-Born citizen?
Community with low population density and undeveloped land
What are Rural Communities?
Products that are made by employees and sold in markets
What are Goods?
The major pull factor for immigration to MN in the 1870s
What is farmland in Minnesota?
Machine Operators, Farmers, and Millers are important to this industry.
What is the Flour Industry?
A citizen who is granted citizenship because they went through a process to become one
What is a naturalized citizen?
Community with residential housing just outside of an urban area.
What is a Suburban area?
produces and sells products. hires employees and pays them.
Businesses
an organization that worked on teaching farmers new methods and advocating for farmers in the government
What is the Grange?
Pickaxes, Dynamite, Furnaces, and Railroads were Machines important to this industry.
What is the Iron Industry?
Stefan Jakub's neighborhood which was home to many Slovak immigrants
What is Bohemian Flats?
the process of developing large, mechanical factories
What is Industrialization?
an area of economic activity in which people buy and sell things
What is a Market?
Cheated farmers by saying their grain wasn’t worth as much as it was
Who were Railroad Workers/Inspectors?
Places where Iron Ore was found.
The Mesabi, Vermilion, and Cuyuna Ranges (Northern Minnesota)
Reasons why Anton Antilla and other miners went on strike
What are Better Working Conditions and Better Pay?
to put money into something offering potential profit
What is investing?
an organization formed to help its members buy or sell products as a large group in order to get better prices
What is a Cooperative?