1190686813 | The Protestant Reformation | Sixteenth- century religious reform movement begun by Martin Luther | 1 | |
1190686814 | Puritans | English Calvinists who considered the Church of England so corrupt that they broke with it and formed their own independent churches | 2 | |
1190686815 | Separatists | Radical Calvinists who considered the church of England so corrupt that they broke with it and formed their own independent churches | 3 | |
1190686816 | Mayflower compact | the shipboard agreement by the Pilgrim Fathers to establish a body politic and submit to majority rule | 4 | |
1190686817 | Covenant | Puritans' term for their belief that Massachusetts Bay had a special arrangement with God to become a holy society | 5 | |
1190686818 | Dismissal of parliament | Charles I's political action of 1629 that led to persecution of the puritans and the formation of the Massachusetts Bay Company | 6 | |
1190686819 | Fishing & Shipbuilding | the two major nonfarming industries of Massachusetts Bay | 7 | |
1190686820 | antinomianism | Anne Hutchinson's heretical belief that the truly saved need not obey human or divine law | 8 | |
1190686821 | Banishment | Common fate of roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson after they were convicted of heresy in Massachusetts Bay | 9 | |
1190686822 | Praying Towns | Villages where New England Indians who converted to Christianity were gathered | 10 | |
1190686823 | King Phillip's War | Successful military action by the colonies united in the New England Confederation | 11 | |
1190686824 | Glorious revolution | English revolt that also led to the overthrow of the dominion of New England in America | 12 | |
1190686825 | Hudson River | river valley where vast estates created an aristocratic landholding elite in New Netherlands and New York | 13 | |
1190686826 | Test Oaths | required sworn statements of loyalty or religious belief resisted by the Quakers | 14 | |
1190686827 | Smuggling | common activity in which the colonists engaged to avoid the restrictive, unpopular Navigation Laws | 15 |
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