After Pillsbury started working at the mill it looked like things were finally turning around. Now that the small flour mill was under Charles Pillsbury’s
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Intro: When people eat food they do not think about what is in it, or how it is made. The only thing people care about is what the food tastes like and how much they get. During the 1900’s the meat packing industry had not regulations of any kind. All that mattered to the industry was that they made as much money as possible with as little expenditure as possible. During this times people were often made sick and died either from working conditions or poor food quality.
In a time when America was coming out of the bloodiest war that was ever fought, against themselves, The Civil War, and when America looked overseas for a new frontier with Imperialism. It is in this context that America started to grow westward with farm land and in industry with the million of workers, but America still felt growing pains. Two significant ways in which farmers and industrial workers responded to industrialization in the Gilded Age (1865-1900) were the formation of organizations to protect farmers, and the creation of labor unions and the use of strikes to protect the workers. One significant way in which farmers responded to industrialization in the Gilded Age (1865 - 1900) was the formation of organizations to protect farmers. During Westward Expansion farmers fell victims to the low pricing of the crops.
As one of the largest cities in the Midwest, Minneapolis had become a diverse metropolis. The Washburn-Crosby company, later named General Mills, capitalized upon this diversity, using French, Hungarian, and Austrian milling and flour grinding techniques to perfect his flour (277). By this point, Minneapolis was grinding 14.1% of the grain in the United States, and was producing almost 25% of US flour (278). As Minneapolis globalized, the city expanded and began to sprawl into the surrounding farmland. Townships spread like wildfires, and soon, the Twin Cities were surrounded by villages of immigrants.
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The industry was well for a long time. The mines were by Lake Superior. The brothers made a railroad to Duluth. The railroads were finished in 1893. The trains would get the ore then drop the ore to boats.
Flour Industry The Flour, Lumber, and Iron Industries were a big deal back in the 1800s and still are today! You are going to be learning about the Flour Industry. The Flour Industry started when the Flour Mill started grinding 15 years before Pillsbury arrived! Back then, they relied on money, natural resources, machines, and the workers. Until the 1870’s flour made from Minnesota wheat was speckled with brown flecks of brand or germ.
