Fur Traders And Settlers In North America

Question 1

describe the fur trade and the interaction between natives and Europeans

Answer 1

• N american fur trade started when fishermen bartered for fur with local people
• then they found the rich fur-producing regions through the Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay
• started connecting N American interior by forts and train posts
• got pelts from indigenous
• fur went to Europe which had high demand for beaver skin

Question 2

interaction between natives and Europeans in fur trade

Answer 2

• the indigenous trapped animals for Europe

- in exchange for manufactured goods like wool blankets, iron pots, firearms, and distilled spirits

Question 3

why did the fur trade lead to conflicts among the native inhabitants of North America?

Answer 3

• beavers pop declined so fast that natives had to push inland or
• poached/ invaded other territories -> leading to war

-this was time of european competition and natives got into patron’s rivalries

Question 4

How did the European cultivation-based settlements in North America impact the native inhabitants?

Answer 4

• displaced indigenous

- turned hunting grounds into plantations

Question 5

Describe the development of labor systems employed in the production of cash crops.
(why did plantations predispose (allow) colonists to use indentured labor?)

Answer 5

• N americans couldn’t subjugate the natives into labor
• so they let (unemployed, orphans, political prisoners, criminals) sell service for passage to America–for a new start
• after 4-7 years of indentured labor, many died or only found marginal employment
• some became prominent figures

Question 6

Why was the use of indentured labor eclipsed by the use of African slaves?

Answer 6

-Virginia recognized al blacks as slaves and increasingly replaced the indentured servants with African slaves

Question 7

where was slave labor prominent?

Answer 7

West Indies (Islands from Florida to Venezuela)

Question 8

Why did it not occur in other areas in North America?

Answer 8

–northern colonies=land and climate not suitable for cultivation of labor-intensive cash crops

• slaves produced sugar to make rum
• the rum is sold to African coast for more slaves

Question 9

Despite the small number of slaves in the northern colonies, how did they benefit from slavery?

Answer 9

(New York and Philadelphia) benefited from the

-building and outfitting slave vessels