Chapter 12
 Advancements in farming
 Jobs (Lumber, Steel and Flour)
 St. Paul
Older, More Dignified
 Minneapolis
Newer, Boomtown – flour
 Census War (3:28)
 Duluth- Shipping from the Iron Range
1913: Knud Wefald, State Representiative
 Minneapolis
 St. Paul
 Duluth
 Working Class
 Not enough work on the Farm
 Massed in Urban areas looking for Work
 Iron Range
 Minneapolis, St. Paul and Duluth
 Swede Hollow
 They Chose Minnesota (3:19)
 What countries did they come from?
 What did they do?
 Where did they live?
 What Problems arose for the Immigrants?
 First Skyscraper :
 Guaranty Loan Building
 1892
 Minneapolis
12 Stories Tall
 Building Codes
 -12 stories
 Lifted in 1916
 Knud Wefald
 -Towering Buildings (12 stories)
 -Mostly hated the pace of life
 Sidewalks Full
 People everywhere
 Moving about faster and faster
 -8 new electric streetcars debut in Minneapolis
 -Much Faster than Horse cart
 -Drivers dressed up and looked straight ahead
 Video
 Mobile, travel outside your neighborhood
 Riders could be out of sight of family
 Woman Rescue League morals.”
 -Women’s Rescue League
 First seen in 1895
 By 1905 – 125 automobiles
-Very Fast and mobile
- Early Cars, silent (1:03)
- the-rise-of-henry-ford
- climbing competitions, 20 mph
- Riders dressed in fancy clothes
- Riders needed to show better manners
 Crowding, unhealthy, dirty, housing
Government and Private Groups
step in to help
Charities
Helping poor families: Money, food, housing, clothing
Board of Health
Rules to control filth and sewer condition that spread
disease and malnutrition
Local Government
land for parks, museums, libraries, open space
 Pillsbury House in Minneapolis
 Neighborhood House in Minneapolis
 New Immigrants
 -Transition
 -Feel at home
Neighborhood House
 Nothing would convince him the City was OK
By 1920
 Minnesota no longer a land of mostly farmers
 Homesteading stopped in 1918
 By late 30’s, half of population of state live in cities
 Growing Pains everywhere is state
 Everyone needed modern solutions
 Growth Came is Spurts
 Jay Cook came in 1868 only 100 people
 Why did they invest?
 Natural Harbor – port
 Edge of a huge pine forest
 Convinced them Duluth would become:
 Rail and Shipping center
 Wheat
 Lumber
 Cattle
 Other products
 Investors impressed and put a ton of money into Duluth
 Houses could not be built fast enough
 Rail workers
 Land buyers
 Workers
 Rail roads connected Duluth - 1871
-St. Paul
-Moorhead
Canal thru Minnesota Point to bring
ships to Duluth not Superior
 Hard times all over the country hit Duluth
Jay Cooke and investors ran out of money
Duluth First Boom over, Duluth very poor
 1880’s – Another Boom from the Iron
Range
City grew with shipping, lumberyards, Grain elevators
Canal built by Cooke helps hundreds of ships into port
1919 – Giant Steel Mill added.
Now 3rd largest city
Victorian
Prairie School Home
Prairie School type homes came from the
Midwest