Ethnicity

Title: Graph of Native Born Residents
Type: Data
Date: 1900
Source: Minnesota Historical Society

Description: This graph uses data from the 1900 census and tells whether Hibbing residents in the sample were native or foreign born.

Activities:

1. What might explain the large number of foreign-born residents in Hibbing?
   
   
   
   
   Answer: Since Hibbing had just been founded about 10 years earlier, it is likely that many new immigrants came to Hibbing to find work in the new town.
2. What does it mean to be a first generation, native-born resident?
   
   
   
   
   Answer: "First generation, native born" means that your parents were born in their homec ountry and then moved here, and you are part of the first generation in your family to be born here after your parents arrived.
3. How might this chart look for Hibbing today? How could we find out?
   
   
   
   
   Answer: The ratio of foreign-born residents to native-born residents is probably not nearly as high today as it was in 1900. We could check this by studying the most recent composite census report for the area.
4. What would bring immigrants to Hibbing in 1900?
   
   
   
   
   Answer: Many immigrants came to Hibbing to get jobs working in the iron mines.