Chapter 11: Flour, Lumber, and Iron

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 iron ore industry so successful in MN? Choose the BEST answer.

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

Who is the industrialist associated with the mining industry on the Mesabi Range in Minnesota?

• Charles Pillsbury

• Frederick Weyerhaeuser

• Henry Oliver

• All of these

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
• All of these

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
• All of these

What is a Natural Resource

• Something Man-Made
• Something from Nature that is used by humans
• Something that humans create to help nature

What is Industrialization?

• Use of factories and machines to make life easier
• Using natural resources to make products
• Using man-made materials instead of natural resources
• Protecting natural resources by not using machines

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

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