Ch. 7: Minnesota's Newcomers

When Minnesota became a state, the benefits were: [choose three]

• control its own finances

• more independence with railroad companies

• voice in national affairs

• access to more natural resources

Harriet Bishop was:

• a Swedish recruiter who got other Swedes to come to MN

• the first territorial governor of MN

• the first public school teacher in MN

• first woman elected to the US Congress by MN

Minnesota became a state on May 11, _____?

• 1849

• 1855

• 1858

• 1857

Henry Sibley was the:

• first immigrant to MN

• first governor of MN

• first person to build a school in MN

• first person to find the source of the Mississippi River

The benefits of becoming a territory were:

• Establish courts and legislature

• Send an elected representative to Washington DC

• Have a territorial governor appointed by the President

• All of the above

A recruiter is:

• an old, old wooden ship used during the Civil War era

• someone who gets others to join a group

• an elected official that was in charge of dividing the new land into farms

• a person who oversaw the entire fur trade

A reservation is:

• a gathering place for voyageurs, Native Americans, and traders to meet and trade

• land set aside by the US Govt. specifically for the Native Americans

• someone who converted others to Christianity

• the Dakota word for 'respect'

An immigrant is:

• a person who was beneath a voyageur and did the most difficult work

• a government official in charge of letting immigrants into a state

• an elected representative that helped a territory become a state

• a person who comes into a country to live and work there

People left European countries and came to MN because of: [choose three]

• Wars back home

• Famine (not enough food)

• Natural resources like iron, lumber, and furs were all used up

• Religious persecution

• Lack of land and jobs back in their home country

Out of the following, who is the meanest?

• Miss Trunchbull

• Petunia Dursley

• President Coriolanus Snow

• Mrs. Hall