AP US History identifications for The American Pageant Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies
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| 798887688 | Blue Laws | passed by Connecticut Puritans to govern morality | |
| 798887689 | Bread Colonies | Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey, due to their large exports of grain | |
| 798887690 | Protestant work ethic | serious commitment to work and worldly pursuits, calling to do God's work on Earth | |
| 798887691 | Salutary neglect | British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of Parliamentary laws, with the hope that the colonies would flourish if left to themselves | |
| 798887692 | Elect | souls already chosen to go to heaven, according to the concept of predestination | |
| 798887693 | Anne Hutchinson | challenged Puritan doctrine of predestination, claimed that if it was true, then the elect had no reason to obey God or the law, was banished from Massachusetts | |
| 798887694 | Antinomianism | literally "against the law," Hutchinson's claim that laws did not matter to the elect | |
| 798887695 | Bible Commonwealth | Massachusetts Bay Colony, founded by Puritans, religious leaders were very powerful, but maintained separation of church and state | |
| 798887696 | Covenant | Puritan colonists in Mass. Bay Colony believed they had an agreement with God to build a holy society in the New World | |
| 798887697 | Navigation Laws | British policy that attempted to bring the colonies closer to England by stopping American trade with places not ruled by the crown, increased smuggling | |
| 798887698 | Dominion of New England | administrative union of the New English colonies plus New York and New Jersey | |
| 798887699 | Freemen | adult males who belonged to the Puritan congregation, were the only ones allowed to vote in Mass. Bay | |
| 798887700 | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | constitution that set up a democratic regime, eventually used for Connecticut's charter and state constitution | |
| 798887701 | Glorious Revolution | put William and Mary on the throne of England, allowed the Dominion of New England to collapse | |
| 798887702 | Great Puritan Migration | wave of migration to the New World in the decade following the success of the Mass. Bay colony | |
| 798887703 | James II | Duke of York, unpopular Catholic ruler dethroned in the Glorious Revolution | |
| 798887704 | John Calvin | founder of Calvinism, author of Institutes of the Christian Religion, believed in predestination and the elect | |
| 798887705 | John Cotton/John Winthrop | Puritan preachers in the Mass. Bay, believed in the calling to do God's work on Earth | |
| 798887706 | Massachusetts Bay Colony | mainly families, wanted to settle long-term | |
| 798887707 | Mayflower Compact | not a constitution, simple agreement to form a crude government and use democratic methods | |
| 798887708 | Metacom | called King Philip by the English, gathered the tribes around Plymouth into an alliance to fight the Puritans, destroyed many villages before eventually failing | |
| 798887709 | Middle Colonies | New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania, exported grain, fur, and lumber, had economic and social democracy | |
| 798887710 | New England Confederation | included two Mass. colonies and two Conn. colonies, allowed to become semi-autonomous | |
| 798887711 | New Jersey | founded when two proprietors received the territory form the Duke of York, both halves were later acquired by Quakers before being combined into a royal colony | |
| 798887712 | New York | originally New Netherlands, founded by the Dutch | |
| 798887713 | Pequot War | confrontations between Plymouth settlers and Pequot tribe became war, ended with a siege that destroyed the tribe | |
| 798887714 | Peter Stuyvesant | led the Danish forces that ended Swedish rule in the New World | |
| 798887715 | Predestination | the belief that each soul's salvation is determined by God and cannot be earned during one's lifetime | |
| 798887716 | Quakers | religious society, primarily in Pennsylvania, saw everyone as equal under God, pacifists | |
| 798887717 | Rhode Island | founded by Roger Williams, complete religious freedom, attracted outcasts, was liberal from the start |
