Vocabulary
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A wealthy man in charge of a trading post
What is a trader?
100
The North American fur trade began around this time period
What is the early 1600's?
100
These were symbols of social status in Europe.
What are felt hats?
100
This was the location of the central fur post.
What is Grand Portage?
100
The place where boats or goods are carried overland from one stretch of water to another.
What is a portage?
200
A man who usually managed the day-to-day business at a fur trading post
What is a clerk?
200
The two groups that began fur trade in North America
What are the French and the Native Americans?
200
This was more comfortable and easier to clean than fur.
What is woven fabric?
200
This was the first trading company the Ojibwe began doing business with.
What is the North West Company?
200
This useful item combines features from both Indian and white cultures. Governor Alexander Ramsey had one of these.
What is a Metis coat?
300
A workman who performed the physical labor of the fur trade
What is a voyageur?
300
The location where North American fur trade first began.
What is the St Lawrence River valley?
300
These provided a new way to decorate leather moccasins and bags.
What are glass beads?
300
The XY Company sent him as a clerk to compete with the powerful North West Company.
Who is Michel Curot?
300
This was the part of the beaver's fur that was used to make felt for hats.
What is the soft undercoat?
400
Items like blankets, jewelry, knives, kettles, and guns that the French traded to the Indians.
What are manufactured goods?
400
The Indians wanted these because they were fireproof and almost unbreakable.
What are brass and tin kettles?
400
He was married to an Ojibwe woman.
Who was John Sayer?
400
The families that were created as European men married Indian women and had children.
Who are the Metis?
500
An annual summer meeting of traders, clerks, voyageurs, and Indians
What is the rendezvous?
500
By the 1700's, fur trade had changed to involve these countries.
What are France, Great Britian, and Holland?
500
This group of people were an important link between European and Indian communities.
What are Indian women?
500
This season was a time to relax.
What is summer?
500
This Belgian Catholic priest traveled up the Mississippi River and wrote a book about his adventures.
Who is Louis Hennepin?
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