USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The rapid depletion of beaver populations led to increased conflict among American Indian tribes as competition increased for furs and relationships with European allies. In addition, European settlers encroached on American Indian land as they moved west looking for new animal populations.

Detailed explanation-2: -Trading posts began to spread to the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley by the mid-eighteenth century, which helped cause the French and Indian War when the English wanted to seize control of the lucrative fur trade.

Detailed explanation-3: -The major trade goods were woollen blankets, cotton and linen cloth, metal goods, firearms and fishing gear. Tobacco, alcohol, trade jewellery and other luxury items accounted for only ten percent of the goods traded. The fur traders received far more than furs from Native people.

Detailed explanation-4: -The fur trade was both very good and very bad for American Indians who participated in the trade. The fur trade gave Indians steady and reliable access to manufactured goods, but the trade also forced them into dependency on European Americans and created an epidemic of alcoholism.