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41 Cards in this Set
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A famous painter of Indians, visited Fort Union
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George Catlin
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Came to Fort Union in 1843, drew birds, animals
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J. J. Audobon
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Who was the founder of the American Fur Company?
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John Jacob Astor
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Who was the man who ran Fort Union?
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Kenneth McKenzie
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What two companies dominated trade on the Missouri until they merged?
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American Fur Company
Columbia Fur Company |
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Why did fur trading end on the Missouri River by the 1870's?
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Extensive Trapping and Hunting
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In 1800, who, was an independent trader that established a post at Lake Traverse, Minnesota?
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Robert Dickson
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Who was responsible for making Pembina a permanent trading post?
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Alexander Henry
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A food that the Indians developed, was made by drying strips of bison meats over a fire, pounding it into a powder, mixing it with melted bison fat and putting it in a bison hide bag
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Pemmican
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Who kept accurate journals of the activities at the Pembina post?
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Alexander Henry
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THe fifth Earl of Selkirk, founded an agricultural settlement near present-day Winnipeg, Canada
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T Douglas
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Who did Henry Hastings Sibley send into Northern Dakota to trade fur for in 1842
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N. Kittson
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Where did Kittson and Sibley move their operations to in 1844
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Pembina
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The fur trade brought what two destructive elements to the American Indians?
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Alcohol and Disease
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The _______ were usually willing to rely on luck and nature's resources for survival?
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Traders Trappers
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__________ were organized that built trading posts in the wilderness where they traded goods for furs
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Fur Companies
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While in North Dakota, Lewis and Clark hired ________, a French fur trader, as a guide
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Charbonneau
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The boss of the fort
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Bourgeois
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Or traded
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Bartered
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Prices were in terms of
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Beaver Pelts
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The fur trade in North Dakota was located along what two rivers
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Missouri and Red River
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What company formed in 1670, built fur-trading forts and began to trade with Indians on the Red River
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Hudson Bay Co.
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Who was the first person to establish a trade post empire on the Missouri River?
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Manuel Lisa
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________became the northernmost post of the Missouri Fur Company
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Fort Lisa
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What two men traveled up the Missouri River and told the Indians that the American governmant intended to protect the traders on the rivers
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H Atkinson
Ben O' Fallon |
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Who was the first non-Indian to record a visit to North Dakota
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LaVerendrye
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Who would finance his (Answer to #30) search
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Montreal Merchants
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Who was instructed by the Northwest Company to find the 49th parallel?
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D. Thompson
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Who was the French explorer who claimed the land drained by the Mississippi for France
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Robert LaSalle
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Louisiana was named in honor of the French King_________?
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Louis XIV
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Who defeated the French and took their land claims in North America?
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England
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Who sold the Louisiana Territory to the U.S.?
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France
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How much did the U.S. pay for the Louisiana Territory?
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$15 million
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Who was the president that accepted the Louisiana Terr. deal?
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Thomas Jefferson
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Before the sale of the L. Territory, Pres. Jefferson. had commissioned an expedition to travel the __________
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Missouri River
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Captain of the expedition
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Merriwether Lewis
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Captain of the expedition
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William Clark
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The expedition left from
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St. Louis
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On Oct. 14, 1804, the Corps arrives at the _________ village
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Hidatsa
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On Oct. 14, 1804, the Corps arrives at the _________ village
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Mandan
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The name of the slave on the expediton
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York
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