Fur Trade

Title: Fur Trade
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Fur Trade

When the Europeans came to America, there were fur-bearings animals everywhere. The best quality of furs came from the north, the reason why, is because in the north the animals needed a thicker coat to protect themselves from the harsher winter. The Indians were only hunting the fur-bearing animals for food, and for the fur for clothing, but since they didn’t hunt them for sport the population of the animals remained fairly steady. Later …showed first 75 words of 1080 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1080 total…brandy and it was then made illegal to sell in New France. The fur trade being the main, and only exploit for New France did not help them very much. All they did was expand their territory westward in search of fur, but had a population that grew very slowly. This in comparison to the English who had a much smaller territory with a much larger population, eventually led to the defeat of New France.

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