Fur Traders and Settlers in North America

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Fur Traders and Settlers in North America
By SHEA MAL
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The Fur Trade

• - Europeans first came to the Americas for fish
• Later they realized that Fur brought more
  profits
• Thus creating, the American Fur-trade
• Trading Basins in the Hudson Strait and Hudson
  Bay
• Trading Posts start to form all around the
  northern parts of North America
• -Owners Royal Agents, adventurers, business
  men, and settlers
• Goods wool blankets, iron pots, firearms, and
  distilled spirits
• Exports consumed mostly by Europe
• Goods include Beaver Hats and Fur clothing

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Effects of the Fur Trade
- The Fur Trade caused much conflict- Beaver
population rapidly disappear- Natives depended
on beaver skin too- Invasions Poaching
occurred- War within different territories-
Competitions in European States- Indigenous
people get involved with rivals of their
patronsExample - Iroquois people (allies of
the Dutch) went to war with the Hurons- Army
equipped by the Dutch- They sought to
exterminate Hurons and gain more land- Hurons
survived the war but Huron power in the North of
the Great Lakes were gone.
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Settler Society
- European settlers and cultivators removed
natives of the lands to build plantations- Early
colonists would not have survived without the
help of the natives and their crops such as-
maize- game- fish- Later French and English
migrants became stabilized and they would
distinguish(success) themselves from the
natives.
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CASH CROPS

• Settlers in the new world begin to grow crops
  native to the Americas and market them in Europe
• HUGE success with tobacco in the English colonies
  of Virginia and Carolina the addictive plant
  became extremely popular with Europeans more
  than 3,000,000 lb exported in 1638
• Other cash crops were rice and cotton
• Large land masses were used to cultivate the
  crops PLANTATIONS that required much LABOR.

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INDENTURED LABOR

• Plantation owners recruited INDENTURED SERVANTS
  from Europe to meet the high demand for labor to
  cultivate their crops
• INDENTURED SERVANT- a person willing to exchange
  a number of years of labor for their passage to
  the new world after they have served their time,
  most would gain their freedom

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Slavery in North America

• Labor also came from the Atlantic slave trade
• Slaves from Africa were brought to North America
  and worked as indentured servants with other
  Europeans, until Virginia law came into passing
  and recognized all blacks as permanent slaves in
  1661
• After 1680, indentured servants were all replaced
  by African slaves
• Slave labor not prominent in northern colonies
  since land and climate were not suitable for
  labor intensive cultivation
• Traded sugared distilled rum for African slaves

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the END.