PowerPoint Presentation Minnesota Rivers

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I. Site Development
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Minnesota Rivers

• What sites would humans choose for settlements?

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American Indian
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Dakota Camp near present day downtown
Minneapolishttp//www.mplib.org/history/index.asp

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Dakota settlements near Minneapolis lakes
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European Settlers
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Where would you place a fort?
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Fort Snelling
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A. Fort Snelling, 1819
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A. Fort Snelling, 1819

• 1. confluence
• 2. protect fur
• trade from British

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A. Fort Snelling

• 3. law enforcement

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A. Fort Snelling

• 4. relationship with American Indians
• a. Treaties
• b. Protect trade and settlers

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Mdewakanton Band of the Dakota Nation
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If you were kicked out of the fort, where would
you go?
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St. Paul
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B. St. Paul (Fountain Cave, Pigs Eye Landing)

• 1. Meander loop
• landing site for loading and unloading goods on
  the Mississippi River
• b. originally settled by traders and no-gooders
  kicked out of the fort for selling whiskey - led
  by Pigs Eye Parrant

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B. St. Paul

• 2. 1849 incorporated as a city and seat of
  government

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If you wanted to build a city using the rivers
power, where would you start?
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Minneapolis
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C. Minneapolis (city of water)

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C. Minneapolis

• 1. head of navigation
• 2. power of St. Anthony falls used to cut timber
  from northern Minnesota and grind grain

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Grain Milling
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C. Minneapolis

• 3. became a city in 1856

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Steam Ships
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River Barges at Minneapolis