Chapter 11: Flour, Lumber, and Iron Ore | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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Flour, lumber, and iron ore

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The kind of wheat first planted and grown in Minnesota was...

Turkey Red

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Rock or mineral from which iron can be removed is...

Iron ore

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The kind of wood highly sought after in the Minnesota lumber industry was...

White pine

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Avflour industrialist who created the Pillsbury Flour Company was...

Charles Pillsbury

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An industrialist who controlled Minnesota’s iron ore mining industry was...

Henry Oliver

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A lumber industrialist who bought and owned a large portion of the white pine forests in Minnesota was...

Frederick Weyerhauser

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Minnesota’s white pine lumber was highly valuable.

True

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Waterfalls were important in flour milling, lumbering, and iron mining.

False

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Two machines that influenced flour milling were the middlings purifier and steel rollers.

True

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The Mesabi, Vermilion, and Cuyuna Ranges were all important sources of iron ore.

True

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Puffed grain (wheat, rice, barley) was invented by Charles Pillbury.

False

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The Washburn mill was destroyed in 1878 by a tornado.

False

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The first organized group of Minnesota farmers was called The Grange.

True

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Why was iron ore considered valuable because...

When extracted, it was mixed with limestone to make steel

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Minneapolis had a “monopoly of power” in the flour milling industry because of the...

St. Anthony Falls

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The lumber industry declined in Minnesota because...

Much of Minnesota’s white pine was cut down, and not enough new trees were planted

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