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Sharpen your Time Detective skills as you solve a set of questions. Sometimes the answer will be easy to find. Sometimes you will have to really look at a source. Sometimes you will have to put clues together to find the answer. But you will always have to think like a historian.

Get Ready…
· Find a pencil or pen so you can write down your answers.
   
Get Set…
· Choose and print a hunt from this list:
  Work, Trade, and Minnesota Made
  Find some of the major industries that shaped Minnesota. What did they contribute to our history and community?
  Arts and Creativity, Minnesota Style
  Who were some of Minnesota's famous artists? What did they create? Why did they create? How does their work reflect Minnesota?
  Innovations In Our Daily Life
  Search for ideas and inventions that changed the way Minnesotans lived. Who thought them up? What happened as a result?
  Moving to Minnesota
  What groups of people moved to Minnesota? Why did they come here? What experiences did they face? How did new people affect Minnesota?
   
GO!
· Open up the TimePieces Timeline: http://events.mnhs.org/timepieces/timeline
· Follow the clues to solve each riddle.
 
  Or Create Your Own Scavenger Hunt!
 

Have you found a bunch of interesting events, pictures, objects, or documents in the Timeline? Use them or the events below to build your own Scavenger Hunt:

  • 1984 Minnesota Pop
  • 1975 New Arrivals
  • 1969 Gay Organization
  • 1961 Bob Dylan Album
  • 1961 Replacing Old with New
  • 1960 Pickets Against Segregation
  • 1955 Civil Rights Leader
  • 1941 Homefront
  • 1938 Parks Exhibits Photos
  • 1929 Foshay Tower
  • 1928 Millions of Cats
  • 1917 Indian Volunteers
  • 1914 4-H
  • 1900 Lumbering Maximum
  • 1893 Indian Schools
  • 1890s Bicycling Craze
  • 1886 Maternity Hospital
  • 1885 School Required
  • 1885 State Fair
  • 1885 Black Newspaper
  • 1884 Iron Industry Launch
  • 1880 Flour Milling Capital
  • 1880 Beloved Professor
  • 1876 Catholic Colonization Bureau
  • 1867 Attracting Settlers
  • 1861 Civil War Troops
  • 1860 Rebuffing Slavery
  • 1857 Abolitionist Newspaper
  • 1830 Painting Dakota
  • 3,000 Years Ago Woodland Pottery
 
 
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