USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The most important players in the early fur trade were Indigenous peoples and the French. The French gave European goods to Indigenous people in exchange for beaver pelts. The fur trade was the most important industry in New France. With the money they made from furs, the French sent settlers to Canada.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the 17th century, voyageurs were often coureurs des bois-unlicensed traders responsible for delivering trade goods from suppliers to Indigenous peoples.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sometimes they bought furs from white men, called trappers. Their search for furs led trappers to explore large areas of the continent.

Detailed explanation-4: -By the early 1700s, the fur trade was firmly established in the Great Lakes region. The French empire was based on the fur trade in this region and required Native American alliances to sustain it. Native people and the French traded, lived together, and often married each other and built families together.