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Chaptre 9 Flashcards

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Considerable?

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Quite large

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Prejudice?

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A pre held opinions or feeling, independent of experience, a unfavourable bias.

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Corpse?

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A dead body

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Navigation?

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The ice on the lakes and rivers would have melted.

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To send down?

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Down refers to the east, where life was more settle than in the west.

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Palatable?

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Edible

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Air?

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Melody

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Provisions?

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Supplies of food and equipment.

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Propriety?

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Good behaviours and manners.

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Rational?

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Based on reason.

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Clothier?

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A maker or seller of clothes or cloth.

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Shellacks?

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A kind of varnish.

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Entrepreneur?

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One who carries out an enterprise

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To mediate?

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To act between parties to bring about an agreement.

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Insanity?

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Mental illness.

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Economic imperialists?

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Imperialism is the domination of one country by another, politically, economically, or culture. Economic imperialism refers to economic domination.

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Capitalist?

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A person with capital, or money to invest.

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Rupert’s land?

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The territory given to the HBC

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Mouth?

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The part of a river where it’s water empty into another body of water.

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Depot?

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A storehouse.

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Cooperage?

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A place to make barrels and casks.

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Smithy?

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A place where a blacksmith works.

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Health?

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A toast drunk in a persons honour.

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Want of?

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Lack of.

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Heir?

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One who inherits.

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League?

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An old measure of distance normally equals to about 5 kilometres.

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Overhead?

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The costs of running a business.

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Navigational instruments?

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Sextant, compass, telescope, time piece and other instruments to measure the locations of the sun and stars with reference to the horizon and the time of day.

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Mariners?

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Sailors.

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Dentalia?

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Narrow tusk shells for the west coast of Vancouver island, a sign of high status among the native peoples of BC

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Coastline mapping?

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Mapping the edge of the land next to the sea.

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Epic?

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Heroic

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To circumnavigate?

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To sail around the world.

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Midden?

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A refuse heap.

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Country wife?

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A wife married after the customs of the country which were a blend of both European and native peoples marriage rites.

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Saga mite?

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A staple food made from ground corn.

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To dress

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To prepare raw furs for use.

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Margin?

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The difference between the cost and selling prince.

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Philanthropist?

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A person who uses his or her money to help others.

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Dictator?

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A person with absolute authority.

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Name three things fur was used for?

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Bedding, trims on clothes, hats ect

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What was the relationship like between the Europeans and native pele in this time frame?

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Their relationship was equal. The Europeans did not want to take over the land or change their spirituality because there was mutual dependency.

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Who did the natives mediate fights about fur trade?

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The Europeans VS the Europeans.

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Why didn’t the Europeans takeover the trade roots from the First Nations if they knew them?

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So mo old blood wars would stir up.

44
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Who took over the fur trade after New France fell?

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By the Scottish and American entrepreneurs.

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When was the north west company formed and by who?

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By the Scottish and British in 1783

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Who benefited from the rivalry between the Hudson’s bay and North west company’s?

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The native because they could play one company agonist each other to get more valuable trading items.

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Were the fur traders colonist?

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No, they hadn’t intensions to colonize.

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If the Europeans didn’t want to settle permanent what were they called?

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Economic imperialists, they just wanted to take profit from the land.

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In 1669 who prep owed a business deal with the British and what was it?

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Two of the best coure de bois, Pierre radisson and Médart de Groseilliers visited London proposing that a trading post in England based on the Hudson’s bay company.

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Who was radisson?

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He was a French coure de bois who was captured by Mohawk for a number of years. He escaped and was recaptured. Finally escaped after being torch urged for many years.

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Groseilliers?

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He had learned from the Huron of untouched lands north of Lake Superior. He was also a French coure de bois.

52
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Who traveled north with Groseiller and Radisson? And what year?

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In 1659 with the Cree

53
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What did the government of New France do with the furs Groseilliers and padisson got the the new land up north?

A

The took them away.

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