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U.S. CENSUS BUREAU DATA
1) RACE DEFINITION
-DEFINE “RACE” AS USED BY THE CENSUS
-LIST THE MAJOR “RACE” CATEGORIES USED FOR THE CENSUS
-WHY IS THE CONCEPT OF RACE DIFFERENT WHEN APPLIED TO “HISPANIC”?
2) GEOGRAPHIC COMPARISON TABLE
-WHICH TWO (2) COUNTIES HAVE THE HIGHEST POPULATIONS OF:
AFRICAN AMERICANS
AMERICAN INDIANS
ASIAN
NATIVE HAWAIIAN/PACIFIC ISLANDER
HISPANIC
-LIST THE MAJOR RACE CATEGORIES AND POPULATION NUMBERS IN OTTER TAIL COUNTY (CENSUS OF 2000)
3) 1860 CENSUS OF OTTER TAIL COUNTY
EXAMINE THE 1860 CENSUS OF OTTER TAIL COUNTY.
-APPROXIMATELY HOW MANY PEOPLE LIVED IN THE COUNTY?
-MOST WERE ABOUT HOW OLD?
-WHAT WERE SOME OF THE OCCUPATIONS?
-GIVE SOME EXAMPLES OF HOW THEY WERE DESCRIBED FOR:
RACE
OCCUPATION
LOCATIONS WHERE BORN
4) ANSWER THE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE WALL MAPS POSTED
-PEOPLE OF EUROPEAN ANCESTRY
What is another way of thinking about a map labeled ”% of an ethnic group’s location”?
Name 5 groups (and where) that have a very distinct high concentrations of population.
Name two groups that are generally found uniformly throughout Minnesota?
Which group generally dominates Minnesota’s regions of:
SW prairie
NW Red River Valley
Iron Range
Northern Forests
Dairy Belt
-PEOPLE OF NON-EUROPEAN ANCESTRY
Which ethnic group appears to be primarily concentrated only in the Twin Cities?
Which group is generally widespread?
Which group is least represented throughout Minnesota Counties?
Why are Hispanic populations scattered throughout the West and Southwest?
DEATH OF A DREAM VIDEO QUESTIONS
Where are the farm houses that this video discussed generally located?
What were some of the materials used to heat the early farm houses?
On the same farm, why were different farm houses constructed differently over time?
Why have so many farm houses become vacant?
Why was the kitchen often the focus of many activities?
How do the uses of the front and back porches differ?
What is visiting?
Why didn’t “city” style homes always work in rural areas?
What are some of the social changes of farm life in the U.S. over the last 150 years?
Name three types of farm houses.
What might mail boxes indicate about farmsteads?
What was the peak year of farm population?
What year was the peak of the # of farms?
In 1935 and 1997 what were the farms per mile?
Where were the “Bonanza” farms located?
What is meant by “a little bit of everything”?
How much did the mail order houses cost?
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