Module 2

Question 1

Which river runs through what was once was the bed of the glacial Lake Agassiz and drains water through the Hudson Bay?

Answer 1

The Red River

Question 2

At the peace negotiations concluding of the American Revolutionary War in 1783, a misunderstanding of northern Minnesota geography resulted in the creation of

Answer 2

The Northwest Angle in northern Minnesota

Question 3

The origin of the Mississippi River is at

Answer 3

Lake Itasca

Question 4

Which is the largest and most productive of Minnesotas Iron Rangers?

Answer 4

The Mesabi Range

Question 5

Which was a large urban center during the Mississippian Period

Answer 5

Cahokia

Question 6

Colombian exchange

Answer 6

• it began in the late 1400s
• it brought Eastern Hemisphere diseases that reduced the population of America by 90%
• it brought horses, pigs, sheep and cattle from Europe

Question 7

Lake Agassiz

Answer 7

Created by a melted glacier, once covered 365,000 square miles of central Canada, eastern North Dakota, and Northwestern Minnesota. Today it’s long since dried lake bed is flat and fertile

Question 8

Conch shell necklace

Answer 8

Tells us their was an extensive trade network 10000 years ago