European Explorers
This person built the first trading post in present-day Montana.
Manuel Lisa
This animal brought a significant amount of the fur trapping industry to Montana
Beaver
This region of North America was the last to be explored by Europeans.
Northwest; eastern Montana to the Pacific Ocean
Smallpox
Fur trappers turned to trapping this animal once they had hunted beavers to near extinction.
Bison (Buffalo)
European explorers from these four countries settled in North America in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Russia, France, Spain, and England
This was the commonly known name for the first trading post built in present-day Montana.
Fort Ramon
The Louisiana Purchase covered 800,000 square miles of land, stretching from these two geographic features.
The Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains
This tribe helped Lewis and Clark cross the continental divide.
Shoshone
Thomas Jefferson had a vision of the west where the government would function as a....
Democracy
This is the name of the military expedition that Lewis and Clark led West in 1804.
The Corps of Discovery
These two companies were the leading British fur trapping companies in North America.
The Hudson's Bay Company and the North West Company.
Beavers affect landscapes in three major ways.
Damming streams, creating wetlands, and trimming trees.
Native women in Montana held many important roles in the fur trapping industry, including...
Preparing food, tanning hides, how to trade with other native tribes, make clothing, and more.
The La Verendrye brothers failed on there expedition to the west for these three primary reasons.
They kept poor journals, their navigational instruments broke, and they turned back to avoid intertribal conflict.
In addition to Lewis and Clark, these TWO explorers were responsible for filling in the map of Montana during the 19th century.
David Thompson and Francois Larocque
The post-and-brigade system included diverse groups of people, list the different types of people involved.
Native Americans, non-Native Americans, and the Metis.
Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic in 1492, and expected to end up on this continent.
Asia
Lewis and Clark encountered this many native tribes on their expedition.
27
The Metis held this important role in the fur trapping industry.
Acted as a bridge between the Europeans and Native Americans through communication by speaking many languages.
Alexander Mackenzie was the first European explorer to travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through a midland route when he arrived in this place.
Bella Coola, British Columbia
Free trappers were common in the 1820's and 1830's. Their lives and work included...
Following native trails, building cabins, setting traplines, hunting for food, and stockpiling furs.
This term means "The belief Europeans had that they were given North America to spread the ideals that they thought defined civilization: agriculture, private enterprise, and Christianity."
Manifest Destiny
Fur trapping affected Montana native people in many ways, including...
Intertribal conflict, intermarriage between natives and non-native people, introduced capitalism, and brought supplies for survival.
4 sergeants, 23 privates, and 7 non-military members