Chapter 4 Review - Key People, Groups, and Events

Question 1

A French noble who decided to send the coureurs de bois into the interior to trade after the Wendat population declined.

Accepted Answer

Governor Frontenac

Question 2

Which French explorer is known for "discovering" the Saskatchewan River, which became a major route for fur traders?

Accepted Answer

Pierre La Verendrye

Question 3

What is the name of the trading post built in Alberta that became known as the "Emporium of the North?"

Accepted Answer

Fort Chipewyan

Question 4

Who owned the British fur trading companies (until the British takeover of New France)?

Accepted Answer

Hudson's Bay Company had a monopoly

Question 5

Who were the Nor'Westers?

Accepted Answer

People who worked for the North West Company

Question 6

This group built their fur trading posts and forts along the St. Lawrence River, Great Lakes, and further inland.

Accepted Answer

The French

Question 7

This man was in charge of the economy in New France. Under his rule, the number of French colonists doubled.

Accepted Answer

Jean Talon

Question 8

Which best describes the role of First Nations women in the fur trade?

Accepted Answer

Preparing furs, working in forts, sharing language and geography skills

Question 9

Who owned the French fur trading companies (until the British takeover of New France)?

Accepted Answer

There were many independent fur trading companies

Question 10

Which best describes the ways that First Nations people helped European fur traders?

Accepted Answer

Taught them how to find food & water, shared knowledge of land, translated

Question 11

Which British explorer (& his men) became the first group of Europeans to cross the continent by land from east to west?

Accepted Answer

Alexander Mackenzie

Question 12

Why was the Great Peace of Montreal (La Grande Paix) a significant event in the early Canadian fur trade?

Accepted Answer

It created peace so that trappers and traders could travel safely

Question 13

Who were the Canadiens?

Accepted Answer

Francophone descendants of the settlers of New France

Question 14

Which event occurred at Fort Whoop-Up (near present-day Lethbridge)?

Accepted Answer

Extreme violence was commonplace, The worst misuse of alcohol documented in the fur trade, Hunters from America came up to trade buffalo hides for alcohol, The "whiskey" traded would make hunters sick, sometimes causing death

Question 15

In New France, this man was in charge of planning. He used the Wendat as middlemen to transport furs.

Accepted Answer

Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Question 16

Which First Nations group acted as middlemen in the French fur trade, bringing furs from many First Nations to Montreal?

Accepted Answer

The Wendat

Question 17

Which three groups banded together to create The Great Peace of Montreal (La Grande Paix)?

Accepted Answer

The French, their First Nation allies, and the Haudenosaunee

Question 18

This group built their fur trading posts and forts at the mouths of rivers draining into Hudson Bay.

Accepted Answer

The British

Question 19

Which event halted competition between the British and the French fur trade in Canada?

Accepted Answer

The British takeover of New France

Question 20

Which is not a true fact about the voyageurs?

Accepted Answer

They lived year-round at the trading posts of the Western interior

Chapter 4 Review - Key People, Groups, and Events

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Chapter 4 Review - Key People, Groups, and Events

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