SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
COLONIES OF FRANCE ENGLAND
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Communion wafers
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Fur
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Slaves
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Tobacco
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Detailed explanation-1: -They relied on native hunters to harvest furs, especially beaver pelts, and to exchange these items for French goods, like glass beads.
Detailed explanation-2: -Fur trading The sale and exchange of animal furs (like beaver pelts). French and Dutch colonizers focused on trading furs with Native American tribes in North America.
Detailed explanation-3: -French and Dutch explorers were particularly interested in gaining valuable furs to trade from Native Americans living in the Northern part of North America that they could then sell in Europe.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ask: How did the Dutch colonists and the Native Americas become dependent on one another? (The natives hunted and delivered fur pelts for the Dutch. They traded these for the tools, cloth, weapons, and alcohol the Dutch imported.)
Detailed explanation-5: -The French, Dutch, and English began to make headway as they landed in the Americas and created settlements. Their goal, like many others, was to find gold, silver, and fur as well as create colonies of new lands that they claimed for their countries.