Voyagers and explorers
Another name for an adventurer
What is an explorer?
The main character in The Littlest Voyageur
Who is Jean
The process of exchanging European trading goods for Native American goods
What is the fur trade?
A small community of people who settle on a new territory
What is a colony?
The ocean next to the colonies
What is the Pacific Ocean?
French worker who transported furs and goods by canoe to be traded at trading posts
What is a voyageur?
The squirrel’s best friend
Who is Jean Gentile?
A specific location where trading of goods takes place
What is a trading post?
The colony with plantations and slaves
What is the Southern Colonies?
The farthest northern colony
What is Maine?
2 items Europeans traded
What are metals, pots, guns, tools, beads and blankets?
The wood used for canoes of voyageurs
What is birchbark?
The war between the French and English over Native American land to be used for trading posts
What is the French and Indian War?
The colony with rocky soil and a lot of fishing
What is the New England Colonies?
The farthest southern colony
What is Georgia?
2 items Native Americans traded
What are furs, beaver pelts and rice
A path along a river where a canoe and cargo is carried on land to another location
What is a portage?
Buildings built strong enough to survive attacks surrounded by tall fences
What are forts?
One of the first successful colonies
What is Jamestown?
The colony that was known as the “breadbasket colony”
What is New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania or Delaware? (Middle colony)
The missionary who traveled with Joliet in a canoe and landed near Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin
Who is Father Marquette?
4 characteristics of a voyageur
What is strong, brave, wears red cap and sash, likes to sing, carries heavy cargo, and is small?
The first French fur trader who landed near Green Bay, Wisconsin
Who is Jean Nicolet
A colonist who was against slavery and usually lived in the Middle Colony region
Who is an abolitionist?
The names of the three Colonial Regions
What are New England, Middle and Southern Colonies?