Key Terms and Concepts

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Northwest Passage

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Waterway through or around North America

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Coureurs de Bois

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Runners of the Woods

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Alliance

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An agreement between nations to aid and protect one another

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Charter

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A legal document giving certain rights to a person or company

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Burgesses

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Representatives to the government

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Representative Government

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Voters elect representatives to make laws for them

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Bacon's Rebellion

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an uprising over land between settlers and Native Americans. Eventually leading the angry settlers to burn the Capital building in Jamestown.