Chapter 11: Flour & Lumber

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

What natural resources make the flour industry so successful in MN? Choose the BEST answer.

• flour, railroads, ships
• wheat, good soil, waterfalls
• iron ore, rivers, Lake Superior
• white pine trees, rivers

What natural resources make the lumber industry so successful in MN? Choose the BEST answer.

• soil, wheat, rivers
• white pine trees, rivers
• iron ore, Lake Superior
• houses, railroads, steel

Who is the industrialist associated with the flour industry? He improved the milling process, and purchased a failing flour mill in Minneapolis and turned it into a huge success.

• Charles Pillsbury

• Frederick Weyerhaeuser

• Henry Oliver

• Alexander Ramsey

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.

• Charles Pillsbury

• Frederick Weyerhaeuser

• Henry Oliver

• John D. Rockefeller

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

What does the word "industrialization" mean?

• a specific branch of business that provides a certain product or service - MN has 3 major ones
• a rock mineral from which steel can be produced
• an owner or manager of a large business
• the process of creating large-scale, mechanical factories

What does the word "industry" mean?

• to put money into something offering potential profit
• the process of creating large-scale, mechanical factories
• a specific branch of business that provides a certain product or service - MN has 3 major ones
• an owner or manager of a large business

What does the word "industrialist" mean?

• an owner or manager of a large business
• the process of creating large-scale, mechanical factories
• a specific branch of business that provides a certain product or service - MN has 3 major ones
• the process of creating large-scale, mechanical factories

Why did Lumberjacks have to boil things like their blankets and clothes from time to time?

• Because they felt like it
• To get rid of rice
• To get rid of lice
• To smell good