USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Typically the location of the trading post would allow people from one geographic area to trade in goods produced in another area. In some examples, local inhabitants could use a trading post to exchange local products for goods they wished to acquire.

Detailed explanation-2: -A trading post is an old-fashioned market or store in a remote place. In 18th-and 19th-century North America, trading posts were where people exchanged goods and learned the latest news.

Detailed explanation-3: -These posts were stores, owned mostly by Anglos, where Native Americans exchanged woven rugs, jewelry, baskets, wool and nuts for food and other necessities. Trading posts also served as banks and bustling social hubs.

Detailed explanation-4: -Trading post empire: Form of imperial dominance based on control of trade rather than on control of trade rather than on control of subject peoples.

Detailed explanation-5: -The first trading-post was established at the mouth of Clear Creek, Colorado in 1832, by Louis Vasquez, and named Fort Vasquez, after its proprietor, but never grew into much importance and was soon abandoned. Fort Laramie, Wyoming painting by Alfred Jacob Miller.