GLOSSARY
alliances
unions formed in which all
members benefit
coopers
people who make casks
or barrels
flax
a fibre from the flax plant that
can be used to make fabric
fur trade
a period between the 1600s
and the 1800s when Indigenous
Peoples traded animal furs
with Europeans for guns
and supplies
Indigenous
originating in a certain place
Loyalists
people who were loyal to Great
Britain during the American War
of Independence
slates
tablets that children used
for writing
treaties
formal agreements
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