Ch. 11 Flour, lumber, iron

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What are the 3 major industries in MN? Choose the BEST answer: lumber, wheat, and steel; lumber, flour, and iron ore; houses, flour, and iron; railroads, flour, and steel.

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lumber, flour, and iron ore

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What natural resources make the flour industry so successful in MN?

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wheat, good soil, waterfalls

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What natural resources make the lumber industry so successful in MN?

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white pine trees, rivers

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What natural resources make the iron ore industry so successful in MN?

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iron ore, Lake Superior

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Who is the industrialist associated with the mining industry in the Mesabi Range in ME Minnesota? Options: Charles Pillsbury, Frederick Weyerhaeuser, Henry Oliver, All of these

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Henry Oliver

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Who is the industrialist associated with the flour industry who improved the milling process and purchased a failing flour mill in Minneapolis turning it into a huge success?

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Charles Pillsbury

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Who is the industrialist associated with the lumber industry in central and NE Minnesota? He helped MN become the 3rd largest lumber producer in the US.

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Frederick Weyerhaeuser

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What types of machines are necessary to have a successful flour industry? Choose the BEST answer: steam powered saws, trains, hot water pumps, steam powered shovels, ships, trains, middlings purifier, steel rollers, millstones, trains, All of these

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middlings purifier, steel rollers, millstones, trains

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Which statement BEST describes how Minnesota's landscape has changed over the past 12,000 years? Minnesota was once covered in glaciers.  After the glaciers left, the many different natural resources here in MN attracted many people.  These people came to MN and have changed the land by putting up buildings, digging up the soil, building railroads, etc.

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Minnesota was once covered in glaciers.  After the glaciers left, the many different natural resources here in MN attracted many people.  These people came to MN and have changed the land by putting up buildings, digging up the soil, building railroads, etc.

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What does the word "industrialization" mean?

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the process of creating large-scale, mechanical factories