Question 1

women struck against these businesses in 1888

Accepted Answer

clothing factories

Answer

flour mills

Answer

railroads

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iron mines

Question 2

Big railway strike against him in 1894

Accepted Answer

James J. Hill

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Henry Clay Frick

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Andrew Carnegie

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John D. Rockefeller

Question 3

fastest growing city in 1869

Accepted Answer

Duluth

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St. Paul

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Minneapolis

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Detroit

Question 4

place most foreign miners came from to the Iron Range

Accepted Answer

Finland

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Croatia

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Slovenia

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Albania

Question 5

Norway, Sweden, and Denmark

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Scandinavia

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On the Anatolian Peninsula

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Southern Europe

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the Balkans

Question 6

source of immigration to MN due to crowded cities

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east coast

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the South

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west coast

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Canada

Question 7

Minneapolis's population in 1910

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310,000

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610,000

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410,000

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510,000

Question 8

year MN's population became 50% urban

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1950

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1960

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1940

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1930

Question 9

made Minneapolis a flour milling center because of its power

Accepted Answer

St. Anthony Falls

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Niagara Falls

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the Mississippi River Falls

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the St. Paul Falls

Question 10

happened on the iron range in 1907 and 1916

Accepted Answer

strikes

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fastest growth years

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years of the great mining disasters

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new ore bodies were found

Question 11

conflict the U.S. joined in 1917

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World War I

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The Boar War

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World War II

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the Spanish American War

Question 12

most immigrants came to MN from this part of the world before 1914

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Europe

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Central America

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Asia

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Africa

Question 13

major employer in Minneapolis

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flour milling

Answer

lumber

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steel production

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manufacturing

Question 14

Stefan Jakub worked here

Accepted Answer

North Star Woolen Mill

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Weyerhaeuser

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the Railroads

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MN iron mines

Question 15

Minneapolis area where many Slovaks lived

Accepted Answer

Bohemian Flats

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the Rondo Neighborhood

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Frog Town

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Uptown

Question 16

established the quota system

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Immigration Act of 1924

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Immigration Act of 1900

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Immigration Act of 1930

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Immigration Act of 1941

Question 17

banned by iron mining companies

Accepted Answer

labor unions

Question 18

Country that supplied the most iron miners

Accepted Answer

Finland

Question 19

41 miners drowned when an iron mine flooded

Accepted Answer

Milford Mine Disaster

Question 20

being banned from working in the mines because the company thought you were trouble

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blacklisting

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employment ban

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exiled

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firing

Question 21

workers hired to do the jobs of striking workers

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strikebreakers

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hired hands

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replacement workers

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goons

Question 22

men hired to harass the families of strikers

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goons

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psychopaths

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aliens

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criminals

Question 23

International Workers of the World

Accepted Answer

Wobblies

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Goons

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Communists

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Strikebreakers

Question 24

law that allowed workers to join labor unions

Accepted Answer

National Labors Relations Act

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Right to Work Law

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Right to Organize Law

Answer

Labor Union Law

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