SS U3 L4 vocab

One of the seven large land masses on the Earth

• America
• Continent
• Ocean

Someone who travels in order to discover something.

• Explorer
• Lawyer
• Dr. Seuss

A small animal whose fur was popular in Europe for hats.

• Cat
• Fox
• Beaver

Something that is hard to find/buy or not enough of something. In France beavers were overhunted leading to

• overgrowth
• scarcity
• Britain

The people who moved the furs through the Great Lakes region and did so by canoe

• voyageur
• explorer

Someone who travels to a new place to teach their religion to people, such as Father Marquette

• president
• missionary

About 500 years ago explorers were looking for an all water trade route to China which led to exploring

• The Great Lakes
• The Pacific Ocean

The Great Lakes Region was rich in wildlife, such as beaver which led to Europeans and Native Americans

• trading
• fighting
• singing
• farming

Why did the first Frenchman (Brule) land in the U.P. rather than the L.P. first?

• to avoid the British allied Iroquois Indians
• to avoid the Niagra Falls
• to get to iron ore instead of salt

The French were the first to come to the Great Lakes Region to trade with the Indigenous People and Étienne Brûlé was the first Frenchman.

• true
• false