Chapter 4 Review

__________ arrived in Wisconsin in the 1600s.

• Europeans
• Indians
• Australians
• Africans

Some French explorers brought ________ ____________ with them on their trips to Wisconsin.  These people came to teach their religion to different groups of Indian people living here.

• fur  trade
• American Revolution
• Jesuit missionaries
• Jean Nicolet

The _____ ________ was a process of exchanging European trade goods for Indian goods, such as pelts or wild rice.

• Jesuit missionaries
• fur trade
• American Revolution
• Jean Nicolet

The fur trade was an _______ system that allowed the French to trade items  like blankets, brass, and cooking pots for Indians goods.

• portage
• pelts
• interpreting
• exchange

_____ _______ is credited with being the first explorer to travel to Wisconsin.  He met with different Indian tribes near Green Bay in 1634

• Jean Nicolet
• Jacques Marquette
• Lois Jolliet
• Therese Fisher

The battle between the British and French for control of the fur trade was known as the _________ _____ ___________ ____

• American Revolution
• War of 1812
• French and Indian War
• World War I

__________ is a location on a river where things are carried from one shore to the other.

• exchange
• portage
• colonist
• pelts

Why were early Native American villages and trading centers near water?

• Villages could use the water for cooking and cleaning.
• Most traders used the water to travel, so it was close for them.
• Native Americans liked to swim
• Both A & B

Portages were important during the fur trade because...

• They gave traders a place to rest.
• They gave traders a chance to carry their canoe.
• They gave traders a chance to gather supplies
• All of the above

Who controlled the fur trade before 1763?

• French
• Native Americans
• British
• Americans