A waterway through or around North America.

A French colonist who lived in the lands beyond French settlements as a fur trapper.

An agreement between nations to aid and protect one another.

A legal document giving certain rights to a person or company.

A representative to the colonial Virginia government.

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

A 1676 revolt of Virginia colonists against the colony's government.

An English settler who sought religious freedom in the Americas in the 1600s.

The mistreatment or punishment of a group of people because of their beliefs.

A 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth Colony.