Fur Trade/Mission Vocab

To trade one good for another.

• epidemic

• barter

• extinction

• bankrupt

The summit line of the Rocky Mountains where water flowing toward Pacific Ocean separates from water flowing toward the Atlantic Ocean.

• Continental Convention

• Mississippi River

• Columbia River

• Continental Divide

A rapidly spreading disease.

• subsidiary

• epidemic

• pandemic

• immunity

The total loss or destruction of an animal or plant.

• extinction

• epidemic

• subsidiary

• intrusion

They controlled the fur trade in Canada and in the Oregon Country.

• American Fur Company

• Pacific Fur Company

• Columbia River Company

• Hudson's Bay Company

The ability to resist or survive a disease.

• epidemic

• initiative

• immunity

• intrusion

A disturbance or interruption.

• intrusion

• epidemic

• radical

• globalization

Being the most common or frequent.

• Preview

• Predominant

• Proportional

• Professional

A company that is owned by a bigger company.

• tributary

• subterranean

• subsidiary

• sectarian

A person who has been sent to a foreign country to teach their religion to the people who live there.

• missionary

• assimilator

• homesteader

• reformer