Minnesota

ago. First came the creation of the ACT and why it was created in 1959. The next development was in 2001 when Illinois and Colorado were the first states to require their high school students to take the ACT. The final development was in 2013 when Minnesota required all juniors in the class of 2016 to take the ACT to graduate. In 1959, the American College Testing was created by a University of Iowa professor named E.F Lindquist(Niche). As more and more students pursued college, the need for…

Minnesota once had a gold mine but it failed with that failure came the discovery of iron ore in the vermilion range and other ranges. Minnesota has the best iron/taconite range in the U.S. this is why. How the iron industry started. Leónidas and Alfred Merrit discovered iron ore on the Mesabi range. The first major discovery of iron ore was in the 1890s. Henry Oliver was the most influential businessmen at the start in the early 1900s. What the iron industry was like at its peak. The…

Reading Response Essay Minnesota is often known as a kindness for all, help thy neighbor kind of state. It even has its own term “Minnesota Nice”. But how far does Minnesota Nice really extend? While reading People Like Us by David Lawrence Grant, I felt defensiveness, curiosity, and gained beneficial knowledge. People Like Us by David Grant had a specific section that made me feel upset and defensive. Throughout his essay, Grant discusses many ideas about bias and racism in Minnesota. He…

And it shaped Canada and Minnesota. In this paper, I will explain the effects of the Laurentide ice sheet on Minnesota's landscape. Glaciers may seem irrelevant to how we live now because in Minnesota there hasn't been a glacier for a long time but, they formed our state. The last glacial advance start of the Des Moines lobe was about 75,000 years ago. The last glacial maximum which means most ice, was around 14,000 years ago, and it completely melted in Minnesota approximately 11,000 years…

industry. First, the industry had to start somewhere. The mills had to have certain resources to make this industry possible. Minnesota had all of them. Rich, deep, soil was great for farmers to plant wheat, the best crop for making flour. Minnesota also had lots of rivers. St. Anthony Falls was a great river to power large mills. There were also lots of settlers. Minnesota had a large population in the cities during the industry. This meant for the flour mills that they could get people to work…

The Dakota-U.S. Conflict Being a war which occurred in Minnesota, and described by some as “Minnesota’s other civil war” and “genocide” by others, we may be inclined to think that teaching it is surely a statewide core component of high school U.S. History, but it is not. This course needs to become part of the requirements of high school U.S. History because to high-schoolers, it largely remains either a completely unknown event or something about which they hold misinformation. It is very…

the 1800’s. It had its peak in the 1800’s, when there were trees everywhere to cut down. Frederick Weyerhaeuser is important because he started a company in Minnesota. He started investing in lumber companies, and then bought timberland in Wisconsin in the 1860’s. When there weren't many trees left to cut down, he came to Minnesota in search of more timberland. His company eventually expanded to sawmills and small railroad lines. The lumber industry then hit its peak around 1875. By…

Minnesota, the "Land of 10,000 Lakes", actually boasts about 11,842 bodies of water that have an area over 10 acres. The relative concentration of lakes increases as you travel north with what might typically be considered the beginning of "lake country" starting on an imaginary line drawn through the center of the state stretching from Alexandria to the west to the famous Lake Mille Lacs to the east. If you came to this page looking for information to help you plan a Minnesota fishing getaway…

Arriving at the age of eleven I moved to Duluth Minnesota. Living there for a year it was the biggest city I had lived in when in Minnesota. Soon after, I moved to Two Harbors Minnesota. I moved there to get away from the busy life of the big city. It was the most fun location of the three cities on Minnesota. It is because of the huge variety of skiing areas and hockey games that everyone attended on Fridays. I lived in Two Harbors…

their duties. Minnesota is a state that requires a certain number of Police Officers Standards and Training (POST) requirements to maintain their police officer license (Minnesota POST Board, 2015). Officers who violate Minnesota Post Board requirements can be subject to suspension or termination of their police officer license (Minnesota POST Board, 2015). In this case officer Jones would be subject to a Minnesota Post Board inquiry to determine if he had violated any Minnesota State Laws.…