1. Follow the directions on your blank map, use the following maps and your “Political Transformations” and “Economic Transformations” readings to fill out your blank one on the Fur Trade

2. Map Directions Draw and Label the following on your map (map 1)
Hudson Bay
St. Lawrence River
Gulf of Mexico
Great Lakes
Using different colors, indicate the fur-trading regions of…(map 1)
France
England
Russia
Using arrows, indicate the fur export routes
Annotate your map with at least three reasons why the fur trade was successful (Economic Transformations reading pgs )
Annotate your map with five impacts (positive and negative) of the fur trade on North American society (Economic Transformations reading – pgs 685 and 686)
Illustrate the expansion of the Russian Empire (Map 2)
Annotate your map with a phrase describing the reasons for this movement of people and furs (Political Transformations reading – “The Steppes and Siberia” pgs )

3. Map 1

4. Map 2