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Minnesota Test Study Guide – Test on Thursday, May 29th
1. Which Native American group was an enemy to the Dakota? Ojibwe
2. Page 127.Why did the Dakota Indians fight the whites during the Dakota
War? After the four young Dakota men killed the five white settlers, the
Dakota decided to attack the white settlers before they attacked them
3. Page 130 131. Did the Dakota Indians succeed in fighting the white
settlers? No, Henry Sibley brought 1,600 men to fight the Dakota and the
Dakota knew they couldn’t win
4. Page 131 132. What happened to the Dakota Indians found guilty of
fighting in the Dakota War? 303 were sentenced to death, Abraham
Lincoln approved the execution of only 39 of them and one was saved at the
last minute
5. Page 60. Who was a voyageur? Ordinary workman of the fur trade, paddled
the canoe and hauled heavy loads for low pay
6. Page 96 – 98. Where did early Minnesotans immigrate from?
Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Germany
7. Which group of early Minnesotans built elaborate burial mounds in the
shape of animals? Woodland culture
8. Page 110. What war were Minnesotans the first to send volunteers to fight?
Civil War
9. Page 45. How did Europeans change the lives of Native Americans?
Brought goods such as guns, brass kettles, wool clothing that made their life
easier. They also encouraged the Native Americans to give up their traditional
way of life
10.Page 8 – 13. What was the environment like in 10,000 B.C.(paleoindians
culture), 6,000 B.C (archaic culture). and 1,000 B.C. (woodland culture)?
Paleoindian culture – glaciers melting forming lakes and rivers, few spruce
trees, moss, and grass
Archaic culture – more trees and plants bearing nuts and fruit
Woodland – The environment was like what we have today
11. Page 13. What major change occurred during the Mississippian culture?
The Mississippian culture started farming
12. Page 8 – 13. What types of animals would there have been in 10,000 B.C.,
6,000 B.C. and 1,000 B.C. ?
10,000 B.C. – mammoths, mastodons, arctic hare, bison, caribou
6,000B.C. – Mammoths died out and replaced with smaller animals such as
bear, elk, deer
1,000 B.C. – animals we would see today
13. Page 25. What is oral tradition? Telling of stories to teach a culture
14. Page 29 – 30 How did the Dakota harvest wild rice? Celebration, tied
stalks into bundles to dry, hit rice with rod and rice falls into canoe, put rice
on mats to dry in sun, rice roasted, rice poured into pits, boys stepped on
rice, shake rice in the wind to remove the outer covering of the grain
15. Page 27 – 32. What were the Dakota’s main activities in the summer,
spring, autumn, and winter?
Summer – Women - planted and tended crops of corn, squash, and beans
Men - fished and hunted small animals
Spring – Men - went off to hunt, muskrat, beaver, and ducks
Women and children - went to the sugar camp to turn sap from the maple trees
into sugar and syrup
Autumn – Men
Preparing for winter - hunting animals for food, clothing and shelter
Women
Worked to prepare to cook and prepare food for long winter
Winter Men Rested, ice fishing, visited
Women Tanned hides, sewed clothing
16. Page 32 (blue) How do the Dakota view history? Time moved in a circle
17. Page 41 – 42. What are some similarities and differences between the
Dakota and the Ojibwe?
* Lived in the forest
*Moved with the seasons
*Hunted game
*Harvested wild rice
*Made sugar syrup
*Oral traditions was important
18. Page 45. Why did Europeans want beaver furs? They wanted to ship the
furs back to Europe where they were turned into hats prized by wealthy
Europeans
19.Page 58 (yellow) Why did explorers and missionaries come to Minnesota?
Explorers – fame
Missionaries – spread Christianity
20. Page 81.What was the Treaty of Traverse Des Sioux?
Treaty the Dakota signed giving up majority of their land in Minnesota in
exchange for money
21. Page 95. Why did Minnesota want to become a territory?
Minnesota could send delegates to Congress, have a governor, and courts
22. Page 115 (yellow) How did the people of Minnesota’s home front help
support the Civil War?
*Gathered supplies to send to the soldiers
23.Pages 9799. What were some reasons that people emigrated to Minnesota
from Europe
*Owning their own land
*Being their own boss
*Landscape of Minnesota was like the land left behind
*Jobs were scarce where they lived
*Escape famines
*Fleeing wars
24.Page 76. What are treaties?
Written agreement between two or more nations
25. Page 83. In 1851, there was a meeting between the Dakota Indians and U.S.
officials where the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux and later a similar treaty at
Mendota was signed. What did the U.S. and Dakota gain from these two
treaties?
Treaty the Dakota signed giving up majority of their land in Minnesota in
exchange for money
26.Page 99.What were advantages of becoming a state?
could control own finances, attract railroad companies, could have a say in national
decisions
27. Page 157. What three industries developed in Minnesota in the late 1800s.
flour milling, lumbering, and iron mining
28. Page 77 – 78. How did Native Americans and settlers view the land of
Minnesota?
Native Americans - When I look at this land, I see my home. I see the graves of my
ancestors that hold sacred traditions. The land is not something that can be bought or
sold.
Settlers - When I look at this land, I see a land of riches. I see land that can be bought,
sold and fenced. The soil is rich for crops, the forests are rich with timber and there are
rivers for transportation and power.
29. What type of people were there in 10,000B.C. hunters
31. Eliza Winston-slave that came with the Christmas family to Minnesota a judge ruled
she was free because traveled to a free state
32. Homestead Act – gave land to anyone who would move to Minnesota and live and
work on the land for 5 years
33. Be able to label the following on a map – Minnesota River, Mississippi River, Red
Lake, Lake of the Woods, Lake superior, Lake Itasca
34. How were the Dakota and Ojibwe different?
Homes – Dakota bark houses and tipis, Ojibwe wigwams
Canoes – Dakota hallowed out logs, Ojibwe birch bark
Spoke different languages
35. Why did the Dakota feel it was a good time to start the Dakota War?
Soldiers were fighting in the Civil War
36. What caused conflict between Dakota and Ojibwe? Ojibwe moved into Dakota land
37 Lumberjack’s typical workweek – work 6 days a week, big breakfast, work in woods
all day, quick lunch, dinner, sleep, Sunday relax, wrote letters, church
38. James J. Hill – built railroad, empire builder, business man
39. What caused the farmers to produce more crops? railroads