Changes and Impact
US Expansion
Colorado Industry
Vocabulary
Early Explorers
100

This word means to trade goods without using money.

What is "to barter" 

100

This word means a settlement under the control of another country.

What is "a colony"

100

This word means a type of business that makes something.

What is "An industry"

100

This is a person who speaks and understands other languages.

What is "a translator"

100

Explorer

What is "a person who travels to new lands"

200

This is something European explorers did NOT do for Indigenous people.

What is "give extra land to the Indigenous people?"

200

This word describes a person who travels to new lands.

What is "an explorer"

200

This word means a meeting at a fixed time and place (often for trading).

What is "rendezvous"

200

This is an animal skin with fur attached.

What is "a pelt"

200

Explorers shared news of their travels this way.

What is "They took notes and made maps of their expeditions"

300

the fur trade change the way Indigenous Americans lived by

what is " stopped using every part of the animal as they had in the past, sometimes only using the pelt"

300

This war helped Colorado become part of the United States.

What is "The Mexican-American War"

300

People built forts and trading posts for this main reason.

What is "trading year round"

300

Colony

What is "a settlement under the control of another country"

300

These people were the first non-Indigenous explorers of Colorado.

What is "The Spanish"

400

European explorers brought new animals and this deadly problem to Indigenous people.

What are "diseases"

400

This purchase added 500 million acres of land to the United States from France.

What is "The Louisiana Purchase"

400

This was the first industry in Colorado.

What is "Fur Trading"
400

Expedition

What is "a journey made by a group of people for a purpose"

400

These explorers shared weapons and horses with Indigenous people

Who is "The French"