Unit 4: Competition For Trade

Question 0

What did the Aboriginals have that the Europeans wanted?

Answer 0

Fur!

Question 1

What did the Europeans have that the aboriginals wanted?

Answer 1

They valued metal goods that came from Europe. 
Pots
Knives
Axes
Copper wire
Guns

Question 2

What did they use the furs for?

Answer 2

Coats jackets, felt hats.

Question 3

What is the barter system?

Answer 3

When you go to a store and trade goods for goods instead of money.

Question 4

What is good about the barter system?

Answer 4

They establish good feelings of respect and trust for one another.

Question 5

What is a wampum belt?

Answer 5

Decorative beads used to represent friendship.

Question 6

Who were the major groups that took part in the fur trade?

Answer 6

First Nations
Merchants
Coures de bois and Voyagers

Question 7

What did the First Nations contribute to the fur trade?

Answer 7

They hunted and trapped animals. The woman skinned the animals and prepared the pelt. Then they loaded their canoes with fur to deliver the goods to the trading posts.

Question 8

How did the merchants contribute to the fur trade?

Answer 8

In both French and English fur trades the merchants financed and organized the trade. They purchased trading goods from Europe and sent them to Canada.

Question 9

How did the coures de bois and voyagers contribute to the fur trade?

Answer 9

They paddled on long journeys in the wilderness to trade for furs with the First Nations. Later thee men paddled canoes from trading forts to Montreal.

Question 10

What was good about the Hudson’s bay?

Answer 10

Close to fur
Many rivers flowed into the Hudson’s bay
Larger supply ships could deliver.

Question 11

Who were nor’westers?

Answer 11

Traders from Montreal, who extended the fur trade. And they also paddled canoes back and forth though trading forts.

Question 12

What is an inlander?

Answer 12

People who lived year round at trading forts.

Question 13

Why did each company keep building trading forts?

Answer 13

To be close to the First Nations trappers

Question 14

Who was Alexander Mackenzie?

Answer 14

A man who found a passage between the Rockies.

Question 15

What impacts did Europeans have on First Nations?

Answer 15

Working for the trade
Following the fur
Depending on European goods 
Hunting the buffalo
Loss of language
Diseases

Question 16

What did women contribute to the fur trade?

Answer 16

Prepared the furs
Made clothing
Paddled canoes and worked in camps
Sharing language

Question 17

What was the great peace of montreal?

Answer 17

Three nation that banded together to fight the haudenosaunee and french. they then set up a meeting to sign a treaty that he First Nations would no longer battle eachother.