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What is cause and effect?
a) The carrying of a boat or its cargo between two navigable waters.
b) An economic practice and theory that believed in government control of resources in order to gain power over rival nations.
c) A barrier formed from upright wooden posts or stakes, especially as a defense against attack.
d) When there is a rise in action, it leads to something that is produced as a result of something.

Who are the Metis?
a) They were also known as the Runner of the Woods and helped translate many trade deals.
b) They were a people of mixed cultural background such as French and First nations or British and First Nations.
c) They were a people mixed of a cultural background such as British and French.
d) They are a people of mixed cultural background such as the Anishinabe and the Miqmac

At first contact what did the First Nations people believe the Europeans were?
a) Beavers
b) Europeans
c) FIsh
d) Caribou

What is a portage?
a) The carrying of a boat or its cargo between two navigable waters.
b) A term given by the First Nations to the new European technology they were introduced to.
c) A barrier formed from upright wooden posts or stakes, especially as a defense against attack.
d) A paste of dried and pounded meat mixed with melted fat and other ingredients, originally made by the First Nations.

Which governor in New France first allowed the Coureurs de Bois to venture into the wilderness to trade?
a) Jean Talon
b) Jean-Baptiste Colbert
c) Marquis de Frontenac
d) Jacques Cartier

Who was Alexander Mackenzie?
a) He was the first European to reach the Arctic Ocean.
b) He was the first English explorer to try and build a colony in North America.
c) An explorer that had called the river named after him the River of Disappointment
d) He set up the first fort in the west, and it was called the Emporium of the West.

Why did the First Nations and Europeans learn to start to respect one another?
a) The Europeans were conquering the First Nations.
b) In order to build trade relationships.
c) When the beaver population started shrinking.
d) The First Nations helped the Europeans with medicine and clothing.

The needs of the First Nations people were met by the goods created in Europe which were traded for furs. What was the worst result of this interaction?
a) Many of the items traded to the First Nations were not properly functioning.
b) Some of the First Nations were forced to work in the trading posts.
c) The First Nations were completely killed off during this time.
d) The First Nations lost some of their traditional skills for making goods due to them being replaced by European ones.

What was the main reason as to why the bartering system was unfair?
a) Many First Nations ended up dying because of ill infected blankets that were traded to them.
b) Over time, the First Nations lost their main food source in the buffalo.
c) Some goods were very expensive, and valued at much higher prices than they were actually worth.
d) Many of the items traded to the First Nations were not properly functioning.

What item was critical to the fur trade? HINT: This item helped get items from one place to another
a) Transportation (Canoes and portage)
b) Weaponry (Muskets and knives)
c) Trading Posts (Stockade)
d) New European technology (Metal pots and pans)

What river was the first Alberta trading post built on?
a) Saskatchewan River
b) Peace River
c) Athabasca River
d) Mackenzie River

What fort was built to supply alcohol in the west?
a) Fort Whoop-Up
b) Fort William
c) Fort Chipewyan
d) York Factory

What was Isabel Gunn known for?
a) The first woman to work in the fur trade and give birth to a non-aboriginal baby in the west.
b) The first woman to live in Western Canada, and she was also the grandmother of Louis Riel
c) She traveled on a long river that took her to the Arctic Ocean, so she called it the River of Disappointment
d) She built the first trading post on the Athabasca River.

Who was the French man who wanted New France to join the mercantile system?
a) Jean Talon
b) Pierre Radisson
c) Marquis de Frontenac
d) Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Who were the most important people who worked in the French fur trade? HINT: They helped with the expansion into the west
a) The New France governors
b) The Jesuit missionaries
c) The Middlemen (Coureur de Bois/Voyageur)
d) The French monarchy (Kings and Queens)

This area was largely controlled by the Hudson’s Bay Company?
a) North West Company
b) Rupert's Land
c) The 13 Colonies
d) New France

Who is Marie-Ann Gaboury?
a) She was the grandmother of Louis Riel, as well as the first non-aboriginal woman to live in the west.
b) She pretended to be a male fur trader so she could sneak into the Hudson Bay to be with her boyfriend.
c) She gave birth to the first non-aboriginal baby in North America.
d) She was a Beothuk woman that tried to educate the English who the Beothuk were. When she died, the Beothuk were extinct.

What did the First Nations people value the most that came from Europe?
a) Gold and Silver
b) Fur pelts
c) European ships
d) Metal objects

What company was considered the rival of the Hudson Bay Company?
a) New France
b) The Metis
c) The Northwest Company
d) The Coureurs de Bois

What is a wampum?
a) A paste of dried meat with melted fat and other ingredients like berries.
b) The carrying of boat or it cargo between navigable waters.
c) A person, or company, involved in the wholesale trade of merchandise
d) Necklaces and belts made of Quahog shell that has been used for hundreds of years for trade

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