Right after the War of 1812, this good led to a business boom on Mackinac Island. This good was obtained by voyageurs, who spread castoreum on the ground to help obtain it, and met each year at meetings called "rendezvous." Fort Astoria was established by a "Pacific" company in this enterprise by John Jacob Astor. Hudson's 
Right after the War of 1812, this good led to a business boom on Mackinac Island. This good was obtained by voyageurs, who spread castoreum on the ground to help obtain it, and met each year at meetings called "rendezvous." Fort Astoria was established by a "Pacific" company in this enterprise by John Jacob Astor. Hudson's Bay Company was founded to edge into the trade of this commodity trade, which brought the Russians into Alaska. Quebec City was founded by Frenchmen to obtain it from Native Americans in the 1600s. For 10 points, name this profitable good traded in early colonial America, which required the trapping and skinning of beavers.
Right after the War of 1812, this good led to a business boom on Mackinac Island.
fur trade [or pelt trade; or beaver fur trade; or fur trapping] 