Instructions for “Colonial Labor and Fur Trade”: read the three documents linked
Instructions for “Colonial Labor and Fur Trade”:
read the three documents linked below. Using the primary documents, write an essay answering the prompts listed below. There are also two optional articles provided for additional references.your answers and must be more than 400 words in length (400 for the whole assignment, not 400 for each question). Direct quotes do not count toward the required word count. Articles:
These articles are quite long, so you do not need to read them all the way through. Use them more as references for specific elements of the fur trade.
Article 1: “The Economic History of the Fur Trade: 1670-1870” – https://eh.net/encyclopedia/the-economic-history-of-the-fur-trade-1670-to-1870/ Article 2: “A Brief History of the Beaver Trade” – https://humwp.ucsc.edu/cwh/feinstein/A%20brief%20history%20of%20the%20beaver%20trade.html
Part 1 Questions: 1. How do Documents 1 and 2 relate to the colonial labor systems that developed during the 1600s and 1700s (i.e. indentured servitude and slavery)? Compare the experiences of each author. 2. What do Document 3, the image, and the articles reveal about the relationships between Native Americans and European Colonists during the 1600s and 1700s? How and why did the relationship differ between different Native American groups and European empires (including the Spanish, English, and French colonies)?
3. Based on your lecture notes and the textbook, explain how the documents, the image, and the articles relate to the history of expansion, immigration (free and forced), and economic development in Europe’s North American colonies during the 1600s and 1700s.