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Chapter 5 Fur Trade Vocabulary. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

a source or supply of a useful material (such as fur, wood, or oil)
a) resource
b) fur trader
c) voyageur
d) clerk

European or American involved in the fur trade often a person in charge of a trading post
a) pelt preparer
b) hunter
c) clerk
d) fur trader

an animal skin with the fur on it
a) resource
b) pelt
c) rendezvous
d) clerk

a person, usually a man, who spent most of his time hunting or trapping animals for food and for pelts
a) hunter
b) fur trader
c) voyageur
d) clerk

a person hired to help voyageurs and fur traders find their way through unfamiliar lands
a) interpreter
b) hunter
c) guide
d) voyageur

a person who translates for people who speak different languages
a) interpreter
b) clerk
c) guide
d) fur trader

a workman who performed the physical labor of the fur trade, including transporting beaver pelts and trade goods by canoe
a) guide
b) fur trader
c) voyageur
d) clerk

people who traveled to Minnesota hoping to get the native people to give up their religions in favor of Christianity
a) voyageurs
b) missionaries
c) clerk
d) interpreter

People who traveled to Minnesota in search of fame and adventure
a) explorers
b) missionaries
c) guide
d) clerk

the annual summer meeting of members of the fur trading industry where trade goods were exchanged for pelts called
a) explorer
b) fur trader
c) Montreal
d) Rendezvous

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