Vocab words highlighted for test from The American Pageant: Chapter 3
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| 1691039426 | Martin Luther | Leader of protestantism. Nailed his 95 thesis to the door of the Wittenberg Cathedral. Believed that people are saved by faith alone and that the Bible was the only source of God's word. | 0 | |
| 1691039427 | John Calvin | Leader of Calvinism which stressed Predestination. | 1 | |
| 1691039428 | Predestination | Belief stating that those going to Heaven or Hell had already been determined by God. | 2 | |
| 1691039429 | Conversions | Signs that were expected of Calvinists to indicate that they were one of the predestined, or "elect", after this they were expected to lead sanctified lives. | 3 | |
| 1691039430 | Puritans | People who wanted to totally reform/purify the church of England | 4 | |
| 1691039431 | "Visible Saint" | The only people who were allowed to enter the Puritan congregations | 5 | |
| 1691039432 | John Winthrop | Governor of the Bible Commonwealth for 19 years who helped Massachusetts succeed in trading fur, fish, and shipbuilding | 6 | |
| 1691039433 | Anne Hutchinson | Lady who was banned from the Bible Commonwealth due to her belief in "antinomianism" | 7 | |
| 1691039434 | Roger Williams | Radical idealist who hounded his fellow clergymen to make a clean and complete break with the Church of England. He was banished from the Bible Commonwealth in 1635 and led the way for the Rhode Island Colony | 8 | |
| 1691039435 | King Phillip | Another name for Metacom. An Indian who led a war against the English | 9 | |
| 1691039436 | Quakers | Faith based religion named so because it's members "quaked" with deep religious emotion. They refused to take oaths and do military service; on the whole, they were a very friendly religious people. | 10 | |
| 1691039437 | William Penn | A well-borne Englishman who embraced the Quaker faith and established Pennsylvania as a religious experiment. | 11 | |
| 1691039438 | Massasoit | Chief of the Wampanoags | 12 | |
| 1691039439 | the "elect" | the name for the people who are the ones who God has chosen to save in predestination. This is the belief of the Calvinism religion and that only these people can be saved and ordinary people cannot earn salvation. This belief was started by John Calvin in 1536 in France when he published "Institutes of the Christian Religion" and is still the belief of Calvinists today. | 13 | |
| 1691039440 | Massachusetts Bay Company | A group of wealthy Puritans who were granted a royal charter in 1629 to settle in Massachusetts Bay. | 14 | |
| 1691039441 | Great Migration | 1630s- 70,000 refugees left England for New World | 15 | |
| 1691039442 | General Court | A Puritan representative assembly elected by the freemen; they assisted the governor; this was the early form of Puritan democracy in the 1600's | 16 | |
| 1691039443 | Plymouth Bay | Place where pilgrims finally settled | 17 | |
| 1691074235 | calling | In Protestantism, the belief that saved individuals have a religious obligation to engage in worldly work. "Like John Winthrop, the [the Puritans] believed in the doctrine of a 'calling' to do God's work on this Earth." | 18 | |
| 1691074236 | heresy | Departure from correct or officially defined belief. "... she eventually boasted that she had come by her beliefs through a direct revelation from God. This was even higher heresy." | 19 | |
| 1691074237 | seditious | Concerning resistance to or rebellion against the government. "[His was] a seditious blow at the Puritan idea of government's very purpose." | 20 | |
| 1691074238 | commonwealth | An organized civil government or social order. "They were allowed, in effect, to become semi autonomous commonwealths." | 21 | |
| 1691074239 | autocratic | Absolute or dictatorial rule. "An autocratic spirit survived, and the aristocratic element gained strength...." | 22 | |
| 1691074240 | passive resistance | Nonviolent action or opposition to authority in accord with religious or moral beliefs. "As advocated of passive resistance, [the Quakers] would ... rebuild their meetinghouse on the site where their enemies had torn it down." | 23 | |
| 1691074241 | asylum | A place of refuge and security, especially for the persecuted or unfortunate. "Eager to establish an asylum for his people...." | 24 | |
| 1691074242 | proprietary | Concerning exclusive legal ownership, as of colonies granted to individuals by the monarch. "Penn's new proprietary regime was unusually liberal...." | 25 | |
| 1691074243 | naturalization | The granting of citizenship to foreigners or immigrants. "No restrictions were placed on immigration, and naturalization was made easy." | 26 | |
| 1691074244 | blue laws | Laws designed to restrict personal behavior in accord with a strict code of morality. "Even so, there were some 'blue laws' aimed at 'ungodly revelers.'...." | 27 | |
| 1691074245 | ethnic | Concerning diverse peoples or cultures, specifically those of non-Anglo-Saxon background. "...Pennsylvania attracted a rich mix of ethnic groups." | 28 | |
| 1691074246 | (Peter) Stuyvesant | Governor of New Netherland, the precursor to New York | 29 |
