Fur Trade Vocab

What is profit?

• The money gained from the sale of a good or service after all the costs needed to make the sale or subtracted from the amount received.

• A source or supply of a useful material (like wood or oil).

• A person's position or rank in a society.

• A workman who performed the physical labor of the fur trade.

What is a resource?

• A person's position or rank in a society.

• A source or supply of a useful material (like wood or oil).

• The money gained from the sale of a good or service after all the costs needed to make the sale or subtracted from the amount received.

• A workman who performed the physical labor of the fur trade.

What is a voyageur?

• A workman who performed the physical labor of the fur trade.

• A person's position or rank in a society.

• A source or supply of a useful material (like wood or oil).

• The money gained from the sale of a good or service after all the costs needed to make the sale or subtracted from the amount received.

What is social status?

• A person's position or rank in a society.

• A workman who performed the physical labor of the fur trade.

• A source or supply of a useful material (like wood or oil).

• The money gained from the sale of a good or service after all the costs needed to make the sale or subtracted from the amount received.

What is a clerk?

• A person hired to help voyageurs and fur traders find their way through unfamiliar lands.

• A person's position or rank in a society.

• A workman who performed the physical labor of the fur trade.

• A man who usually managed the day-to-day business at a fur trading post.

What is a fur trader?

What is a guide?

What is an interpreter?

What is a portage?

What is a rendezvous?