Etienne Brule, Jean Nicolet, Louis Joliet, and Jacques Marquette were British explorers.

Jesuit missionaries were Catholic priests.

Bartering is a system in which money is exchanged for goods.

Beaver pelts were very valuable.

Fur was made into tall fur hats.

Voyageurs carried furs to trading posts along rivers.

In the French and Indian War, Great Britain and Spain fought against one another for more land.

The Russians were the first white people to explore the Great Lakes and much of the Mississippi.

Prairie du Chien was an early French Settlement.

Fur traders did not make much money.

Europeans brought measles, flu, and smallpox to the New World. These diseases killed many Native Americans.

All the changes that the Europeans brought to the New World were good.