Early Minnesota Industries

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Across
  1. 4. growing cash crops on a farm to sell and make money.
  2. 6. made a large profit by buying and selling land
  3. 8. essential role in running the flour and lumber mills in Minneapolis
  4. 11. influenced Minnesota’s mining industry
  5. 13. to put money into something offering potential profit.
  6. 16. gave 160 free acres of land to settlers willing to farm it for 5 years.
  7. 17. some of the first house on the prairie were made of this
  8. 19. made diversified farming possible
  9. 20. owned a railroad company
Down
  1. 1. who sometimes cheated the farmers by claiming their wheat was not quality wheat
  2. 2. The ideal tree for lumbering in MN
  3. 3. A farming organization that admitted both men and women
  4. 5. all important sources of iron ore.
  5. 7. successful in the lumber industry
  6. 8. iron ore was used to make this
  7. 9. producing just enough food to feed one’s family
  8. 10. a problem farmers faced in 1880's
  9. 12. this man helped make Minneapolis the flour milling capital of the world.
  10. 14. owners and managers of large businesses.
  11. 15. the process of developing large, mechanical factories.
  12. 18. founded the Grange