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Chapter 5
Fur Trade
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History
6th Grade
11/04/2013

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Term
Money Earned after costs are subtracted is what?
Definition
Profit
Term
Supply of a useful material
Definition
resources
Term
Animal skin with the fur on it
Definition
pelt
Term
Place where goods and canoes had to carried over land
Definition
Portage
Term
Children of mixed race such as an Ojibwe or Dakota mother and a European father
Definition
Me'tis
Term
Person hired to help voyageurs and fur traders travel through unknown paths
Definition
Guide
Term
Pelt of what animal was the most valueable in the fur trade?
Definition
Beaver
Term
Role of the Ojibwe and Dakota women in the fur trade was what?
Definition
They cleaned pelts, provided resources like wild rice and maple sugar and materials to make and repair canoes.
Term
Why did the Ojibwe and Dakota want European items?
Definition
It made their lives easier.
Term
Was the fur trade a wold wide trade or one that just helped Minnesotans?
Definition
World wide trade
Term
Did the Fur trade the change the lives of the American Indians?
Definition
Yes
Term
What was the goal of the Europeans in the fur trading business?
Definition
To make a profit.
Term
When did the French traders show up in MN?
Definition
In the 1600s.
Term
Beaver pelts were used to make what?
Definition
Valuable felt top hats worn in Europe
Term
Why did Explorers come to MN?
Definition
Fame and adventure
Term
Missionaries came to MN for what reason?
Definition
To spread Christianity (teach about Jesus)
Term
What were popular trade goods that the Dakota and Ojibwe wanted?
Definition
Metals like knives, guns, kettles and ax heads.  Aslo beads, dyes, cloth and clothes.
Term
Person who translated for people who speak a different language?
Definition
Interpreter
Term
Workman of fur trade who canoed, chopped wood, built shelter, couldn't read or wirte and were paid very little were who?
Definition
Voyageurs
Term
Man who managed trading post, could read and write but had no hig social position?
Definition
Clerk
Term
Person in charge of trading post, comes from weathy family with a high social position and could read and write was who?
Definition
Trader
Term
In the winter the main activity in the fur trading post was to ?
Definition
Trap and trade
Term
In the spring, the main activity of the fur trading post was to?
Definition
Pack and prepare the canoe to leave
Term
In the summer the main activity in the trading post was the?
Definition
Rendezvous
Term
In the fall, the main activity in the tradign post was to?
Definition
Prepare for the winter
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