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The Territory of ___MASK96___ was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from March ___MASK37___ , 1849 , until May 11 , 1858 , when the eastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of ___MASK96___ . Agriculture is the cultivation and breeding of animals , plants and fungi for food , fiber , biofuel , medicinal plants and other products used to sustain and enhance ___MASK77___ life . Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary ___MASK77___ civilization , whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the development of civilization . The study of agriculture is known as agricultural science . The history of agriculture dates back thousands of years , and its development has been driven and defined by greatly different climates , cultures , and technologies . Industrial agriculture based on large - scale monoculture farming has become the dominant agricultural methodology . ___MASK96___ ( locally ) is a state in the midwestern and northern regions of the United States . ___MASK96___ was admitted as the 32nd U . S . state on May ___MASK33___ , 1858 , created from the eastern half of the ___MASK96___ Territory . The state has a large number of lakes , and is known by the slogan " Land of ___MASK79___ , 000 Lakes ". Its official motto is " L ' Étoile du Nord " ( French : " Star of the North "). ___MASK96___ is the 12th largest in area and the 21st most populous of the U . S . states ; nearly 60 percent of its residents live in the ___MASK54___  ___MASK80___ metropolitan area ( known as the " Twin Cities "), the center of transportation , business , industry , education , and government and home to an internationally known arts community . The remainder of the state consists of western prairies now given over to intensive agriculture ; deciduous forests in the southeast , now partially cleared , farmed and settled ; and the less populated North Woods , used for mining , forestry , and recreation . ___MASK96___ is known for its progressive political orientation and its high rate of civic participation and voter turnout . Until European settlement , ___MASK96___ was inhabited by the Dakota and Ojibwe / Anishinaabe . During the 19th and early 20th centuries , the large majority of the European settlers emigrated from Scandinavia and Germany , and the state remains a center of Scandinavian American and German American culture . In recent decades , immigration from Asia , the Horn of Africa , and Latin America has broadened its historic demographic and cultural composition . ___MASK96___ ' s standard of living index is among the highest in the United States , and the state is also among the best - educated and wealthiest in the nation . Deciduous means " falling off at maturity " " or " tending to fall off ", and it is typically used in order to refer to trees or shrubs that lose their leaves seasonally ( most commonly during ___MASK99___ ) and to the shedding of other plant structures such as petals after flowering or fruit when ripe . In a more general sense , " deciduous " means " the dropping of a part that is no longer needed " or " falling away after its purpose is finished ". In plants it is the result of natural processes . " Deciduous " has a similar meaning when referring to animal parts , such as deciduous antlers in deer or deciduous teeth , also known as baby teeth , in some mammals ( including humans ). The Horn of ___MASK68___ (, " yäafrika qänd ", " al - qarn al -' afrq ") ( shortened to HOA ) is a peninsula in ___MASK31___ ___MASK68___ . It juts hundreds of kilometers into the Arabian ___MASK94___ and lies along the southern side of the Gulf of Aden . The area is the easternmost projection of the African continent . The Horn of ___MASK68___ denotes the region containing the countries of Djibouti , Eritrea , Ethiopia , and Somalia . A ___MASK74___ ( archaically also omnibus , multibus , motorbus , autobus ) is a ___MASK19___ vehicle designed to carry many passengers . Buses can have a capacity as high as 300 passengers . The most common type of ___MASK74___ is the single - decker rigid ___MASK74___ , with larger loads carried by double - decker and articulated buses , and smaller loads carried by midibuses and minibuses ; coaches are used for longer - distance services . Many types of buses , such as city transit buses and inter - city coaches , charge a fare . Other types , such as elementary or secondary school buses or shuttle buses within a post - secondary education campus do not charge a fare . In many jurisdictions , ___MASK74___ drivers require a special licence above and beyond a regular driver ' s licence . Founded in 1972 , Hennepin Technical College is a public technical school , with two campuses in suburban ___MASK54___ , Minnesota . The ___MASK54___ - St . Paul Business Journal rated the school as one of the state ' s top 10 colleges in their July 2009 edition . ___MASK57___ ( short for " Freedom Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco ") is a United Kingdom political pressure group which campaigns against tobacco control activity . The Ojibwe , Ojibwa , or Chippewa are an Anishinaabeg group of ___MASK28___ in North America . They live in Canada and the United States and are one of the largest Indigenous ethnic groups north of the Rio Grande . In Canada , they are the second - largest First Nations population , surpassed only by the Cree . In the United States , they have the fourth - largest population among Native American tribes , surpassed only by the Navajo , ___MASK92___ , and Lakota - Dakota - Nakota peoples . A county seat is an administrative center , seat of government , or ___MASK26___ city of a county or civil parish . The term is used in the United States , Canada , Romania , China and Taiwan . In the United Kingdom and Ireland , county towns have a similar function . ___MASK54___ is the county seat of ___MASK39___ , and larger of the Twin Cities , the 16th - largest metropolitan area in the United States , containing about 3 . 5 million residents . As of 2015 , ___MASK54___ is the largest city in the state of Minnesota and 46th - largest in the United States with a population of 410 , 939 . ___MASK54___ and Saint ___MASK87___ anchor the second - largest economic center in the Midwest , after Chicago . Voter turnout is the percentage of eligible voters who cast a ballot in an election . Eligibility varies by country , and the voting - eligible population should not be confused with the total adult population . Age and ___MASK32___ status are often among the criteria used to determine eligibility , but some countries further restrict eligibility based on sex , race , and / or religion . ___MASK38___ ( or ), officially the ___MASK9___ of ___MASK38___ , is the third - most populous ___MASK9___ in the United States , and the fifth - most populous ___MASK9___ in North America . With over 2 . ___MASK70___ million residents , it is the most populous ___MASK9___ in the state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States , and the county seat of Cook County . The ___MASK38___ metropolitan area , often referred to as Chicagoland , has nearly 10 million people and is the third - largest in the U . S . ___MASK73___ is a historical and cultural region in Northern ___MASK50___ characterized by a common ethnocultural North Germanic heritage and mutually intelligible North Germanic languages . Prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands , savannas , and shrublands biome by ecologists , based on similar temperate climates , moderate rainfall , and a composition of grasses , herbs , and shrubs , rather than trees , as the dominant vegetation type . Temperate grassland regions include the Pampas of ___MASK1___ , southern Brazil and Uruguay as well as the steppes of Eurasia . Lands typically referred to as " prairie " tend to be in North America . The term encompasses the area referred to as the Interior Lowlands of Canada , the United States , and Mexico , which includes all of the Great Plains as well as the wetter , somewhat hillier land to the east . In the U . S ., the area is constituted by most or all of the states of North Dakota , South Dakota , Nebraska , Kansas , and Oklahoma , and sizable parts of the states of Montana , Wyoming , ___MASK86___ , New Mexico , Texas , Missouri , Iowa , Illinois , Ohio , Indiana , ___MASK49___ , and western and southern Minnesota . The Central Valley of California is also a prairie . The Canadian Prairies occupy vast areas of Manitoba , Saskatchewan , and Alberta . A U . S . state is a constituent political entity of the ___MASK4___ . There are 50 states , which are bound together in a union with each other . Each state holds administrative jurisdiction over a defined geographic territory , and shares its sovereignty with the United States federal government . Due to the shared sovereignty between each state and the federal government , Americans are citizens of both the federal republic and of the state in which they reside . State citizenship and residency are flexible , and no government approval is required to move between states , except for persons covered by certain types of court orders ( e . g ., paroled convicts and children of divorced spouses who are sharing custody ). ___MASK54___  ___MASK80___ is a major metropolitan area built around the Mississippi , Minnesota and St . Croix rivers in east central Minnesota . The area is commonly known as the Twin Cities after its two largest cities , ___MASK54___ , the city with the largest population in the state , and ___MASK80___ , the state capital . It is an example of twin cities in the sense of geographical proximity . Minnesotans often refer to the two together ( or the seven - county metro area collectively ) as The Cities . Anishinaabe ( or Anishinabe , plural : Anishinaabeg ) is the autonym for a group of culturally related ___MASK28___ of Canada and the United States that include the Odawa , Ojibwe , Potawatomi , Oji - Cree , Mississaugas , and ___MASK27___ peoples . The Anishinaabeg speak Anishinaabemowin , or Anishinaabe languages that belong to the Algonquian language ___MASK47___ . They traditionally have lived in the Northeast Woodlands and Subarctic .