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18 Cards in this Set
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W hat two staples formed the bulk of the Michigan pioneer’s diet |
Hog and Hominy (corn) |
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What was the biggest cash crop in Michigan by the 1830s |
Wheat |
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What were John Hascall and Hiram Moore noted for |
the Moore-Hascall Combine - agricultural 'wonder' |
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What was the most common ailment which struck the Michigan pioneers |
3 day ague 1- aches 2- chills 3-sweats |
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What kind of epidemic struck Detroit in 1832 |
Cholera killed 28 ppl in detroit |
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What important “cultural” innovations appeared in Detroit in 1816-1817 |
Detroit gazzette, Detroit Music Society, Detroit Public Library, first piano |
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in 1832, what western Indian tribe was thought to be plotting an invasion of Michigan |
Black hawks/ sac and fox? |
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what event, or events, were responsible for precipitating the “Toledo War” of 1835 |
Could not draw a finite border for Michigan and Ohio. Ohio wants Maumee Bay both states send out surveyors in the toledo strip with clashing results. Congress decided that MI surveyor is correct, then ohio gets upset... Who got Toledo? Starts war |
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What alternate name for Michigan was suggested at the 1835 constitutional convention |
Huron |
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What was the intent of the Pains and Penalties Act |
Create finite line for MI and Ohio border? It says if you are in the toledo strip follwing OH laws, then we will arrest you because it is actually ours (MI) |
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What was the nickname given to the convention which successfully agreed to the compromise that admitted Michigan to statehood |
The frostbitten convention |
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What major setback occurred during the last year of construction of the Sault cana |
The canal was not deep enough, needed to be blasted (1 ft deeper), using 3,000 kegs of dynamite. |
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By about how many times did the production of iron ore increase in Michigan in the five years after completion of the Sault canal |
15,000 tons to 1860-114,000 |
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what modern route is largely the same as the “old territorial road” |
Michigan Ave |
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what types of infrastructure improvements did the Public Improvements Act of 1837 authorize the government to finance |
Put more money into canals (2) and railroads (3) |
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the earliest major transportation needs of the new state were for routes that ran (generally) from where to where |
North to South |
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of the early major Michigan railroads, which was the most successful |
The middle central michigan to chicago |
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what was the original name of Lansing (before it became capital of Michigan) |
Town of Michigan |
