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11 Cards in this Set
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mercantilism
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a regulated economic system that made a country rich from its colonies.
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Trois rivieres
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its a town.
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metis
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may-tee.
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monopoly
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complete controled of a resource by a single company.
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nwc
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north west company
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canadiens
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a desendant of the settlers of new france.
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castor
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a gland at the base of a beavers tail.
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factor
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the person in charge of a fort and its business for the hudson's bay company or the north west company.
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voyagers
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means "traveller" were men from new france who travelled between the fur merchants of monteral and the fur trade posts of the great lakes and evenyually further west.
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courers de bois
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means "runner of the woods " the term comes from the way some men in new france engaged in the fur trade by " running into the woods" to seek ,trade with first nations
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habitants
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were farmers who lived on seigneuries.
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