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Chapter 11: Flour, Lumber, and Iron Ore

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  • A person/job in the lumber industry was...
    Lumberjacks, sawmill workers, industrialists, Frederick Weyerhauser
  • A lumber industrialist who bought and owned a large portion of the white pine forests in Minnesota was...
    Frederick Weyerhauser
  • The kind of wood highly sought after in the Minnesota lumber industry was...
    White pine
  • Avflour industrialist who created the Pillsbury Flour Company was...
    Charles Pillsbury
  • A machine used in the lumber industry was...
    Saws, axes, railroads, logging chains
  • The Washburn mill was destroyed in 1878 by a tornado.
    False
  • Minneapolis had a “monopoly of power” in the flour milling industry because of the...
    St. Anthony Falls
  • A natural resource used in the lumber industry was...
    White pine, forests, waterways, frozen ground for transportation
  • The first organized group of Minnesota farmers was called The Grange.
    True
  • An industrialist who controlled Minnesota’s iron ore mining industry was...
    Henry Oliver
  • The lumber industry declined in Minnesota because...
    Much of Minnesota’s white pine was cut down, and not enough new trees were planted
  • Waterfalls were important in flour milling, lumbering, and iron mining.
    False
  • A person/job in the flour milling industry was...
    Millers, farmers, railroad workers, Charles Pillsbury
  • Puffed grain (wheat, rice, barley) was invented by Charles Pillbury.
    False
  • A natural resource in the flour milling industry was...
    Wheat, waterfalls, and farmland
  • A machine used in the iron ore industry was...
    Railroads, steamboats, steam-powered shovels, electric shovels, steam engines, diesel engines
  • A machine used in the flour milling industry was...
    Steel rollers, middling purifiers, ventilation fans, waterwheels, grindstones
  • Two machines that influenced flour milling were the middlings purifier and steel rollers.
    True
  • Minnesota’s white pine lumber was highly valuable.
    True
  • Why was iron ore considered valuable because...
    When extracted, it was mixed with limestone to make steel
  • The kind of wheat first planted and grown in Minnesota was...
    Turkey Red
  • A person/job in the iron ore industry was...
    Miners, investors, conductors, dock loaders, Henry Oliver
  • A natural resource in the iron ore industry was...
    Iron ore, Lake Superior
  • Rock or mineral from which iron can be removed is...
    Iron ore
  • The Mesabi, Vermilion, and Cuyuna Ranges were all important sources of iron ore.
    True
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