Vocab
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Geography
Economics
Misc.
100
Animal skins that have been cleaned, stretched and dried.
Pelts
100
An annual summer meeting of traders, clerks, voyageurs, and Indians.
Rendezvous
100
Mexico and Florida
Spain
100
When supply of fur went up, what happened to the price?
It went down
100
Most voyageurs travelled along what water ways?
The Great Lakes and Mississippi River
200
Position or rank of a person in society.
Social status
200
The place where boats or goods are carried overland from one stretch of water to another.
Portage
200
Minnesota and St. Lawrence Seaway
France
200
When demand for fur went up, what happened to the price?
It went up
200
Most voyageurs spoke what language?
French
300
A man who usually managed the day-to-day business at a fur trading post.
Clerk
300
A workman who performed the physical labor of the fur trade.
Voyageur
300
New York and Hudson Bay
UK (Britain)
300
When supply of fur went down, what happened to the price?
It went up.
300
After the 7 Years War (French and Indian War) which country took control of the fur trade?
United Kingdom (British)
400
A wealthy man in charge of a trading post.
Trader
400
When the French discovered paths from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean they named the waterway...
Voie maritime du Saint-Laurent
(St. Lawrence Seaway)
400
Brazil
Portugal
400
What is the name of the point where supply and demand meet on a chart?
Equilibrium
400
Who was angered by new taxes after the 7 Years War?
The American colonists
500
An agreement made between two or more different groups to join forces to achieve a common goal.
Alliance
500
When French explorer Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle traveled up the Mississippi River he named the area to the west...
Louisiana
500
Guyana
Dutch (Netherlands)
500
What "f" word is so important to a market based system?
Freedom
500
Who wrote the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776?
Thomas Jefferson