Дистанційне навчання 2020

 PACE WORK (Social Studies) 26\03

Тема: Заселення Америки. Перші американці

T: Match the words with their translation

                                                 

a)      Trade-                    1) бобер

b)     Beaver-                   2) пувичка, намистина

c)      Otter-                      3) сокира

d)     Mink-                      4) видра

e)      Bead-                        5) торгівля

f)       Axe-                          6) норка

g)      Hatchet-                  7) сокира, томагавк

                  Trading between French and Native Americans

        The only things which these Indians had to sell or trade and for which the French traders cared to barter where the skins of furbearing animals. These included the beaver, otter, mink, muskrat, and several others, all of which were then more or less common in Oklahoma and for which there was a great demand in Europe. They also bought or traded for the beautifully tanned buffalo robes which were to be had in every Indian village. In exchange for these articles, the French traders gave knives, beads, axes, hatchets, hoes, brightly colored cloths, mirrors, paints and other things that liked the Indians.
The French traders found their way into remote parts of Oklahoma by way of small boats, canoes made of tree trunks. The traders who dealt with the Indians of the southern part of Oklahoma came up the Red River, from Louisiana. Those who came to deal with the Indians of the central and northern parts of the state came up the Arkansas River from the settlements near its mouth. These French traders left little or nothing behind them in the way of written records, yet the occasional finding of relics of that fur trading era, which began nearly three hundred years ago, give hints of the brave men who went forth into the great wilderness to trade and gather furs..
The French traders always strove to make friends with the Indians and to treat them kindly. For this reason they generally found the Indians peaceable and friendly. In 1763, at the close of the French and Indian War, the French possessions west of the Mississippi River, then known as the Province of Louisiana, were transferred to Spain and, for forty years, were included as a part of the Spanish dominions in North America.

Answer the questions:

1.      What did the French buy and sell to the Indians?

2.      How did the French traders find their way into remote parts of Oklahoma?

3.      How did the French treat the Indians?

4.      Was it honest trading with the Indians?

Match the words to their definitions:

1) Trade       a) a big animal used in farming

2) bead          b) a material used for making clothes

3) axe             c) a small bright colored thing used for decorating clothes

4) cloth           d) a tool used for cutting wood

5) settlement    e)  transfer of the ownership of goods from one person  to   another

6) buffalo          f) to act other people kindly  

7) to treat           g) a place where a community lives