The First French, Dutch, & English Colonies

a waterway through or around North America

• Northwest Passage

• Channel

• River

• Gulf

movement to reform the catholic church in the 1500’s

• Protestant Reformation

• Representative Government

• Society of Jesuits

• Bacon's Rebellion

Runners of the woods

• Coureur de bois

• Courier of trees

• Its ya bois

• Charter boys

legal document giving certain rights to a person or company

• Charter

• Magna Carta

• Alliance

• COnstitution

representative to the colonial Virginia Government

• burgess

• congressman

• Representative

• Governor

representative assembly in colonial Virginia

• House of Burgesses

• Congress

• Ayunemiento

• Council of Leaders

political system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them

• democracy

• representative Government

• Monarchy

• Theocracy

signed in 1215, a British document that contained two basic ideas: monarchs themselves have to obey the laws, and citizens have basic rights

• Charter

• Magna Carta

• Alliance

• COnstitution

a 1676 raid led by Nathaniel Bacon against the governor and Native Americans in Virginia

• Bacon's fight

• Bacon's Revolution

• Bacon's Rebellion

• Bacon's Bar fight

agreement between nations to aid and protect one another

• Charter

• Magna Carta

• Alliance

• COnstitution