Northern Lights Ch. 11 "Flour, Lumber and Iron" vocab review

A shift from hand made goods to machine made goods.

Large factories.

• Invest

• Industrialist

• Industry

• Industrialization

Branch of business that provides a certain product or service

• Invest

• Industrialist

• Industry

• Industrialization

An owner or manager of a large business

• Invest

• Industrialist

• Industry

• Industrialization

To put money into something offering potential profit

• Invest

• Industrialist

• Industry

• Industrialization

Nickname of Minneapolis due to the 26 mills located along the river

• St. Anthony

• Mill City

• Stillwater

• Washburn

One of MN's most prominent millers. Their mill was one of the largest in the world during the last decades of the 19th century.

• Charles Pillsbury

• Cadwallader Washburn

• Frederick Weyerhaeuser

• Henry Oliver

Formed a mining company in 1890 when he realized the potential of ore reserves in northern Minnesota.

• Charles Pillsbury

• Cadwallader Washburn

• Frederick Weyerhaeuser

• Henry Oliver

Businessman, politician, and soldier, he started what would become General Mills and made Gold Medal flour.

• Charles Pillsbury

• Cadwallader Washburn

• Frederick Weyerhaeuser

• Henry Oliver

Founder of a company which owned sawmills, paper factories, and large areas of forest land.

• Charles Pillsbury

• Cadwallader Washburn

• Frederick Weyerhaeuser

• Henry Oliver

Located at the perfect spot: close to prairie and forest

• Bonanza Farm

• Marine on St. Croix

• St. Anthony Falls

• Milford Mine