1700-1780, Out of Many: A History of the American People, 6th edition, APUSH
1149304978 | Toleration Act | act passed in 1661 by King Charles II ordering a stop to religious persecution in Massachusetts | 0 | |
1149304979 | engagés | Catholic immigrants to New France | 1 | |
1149304980 | encomienda | in the Spanish colonies, the grant to a Spanish settler of a certain number of Indian subjects, who would pay him tribute in goods and labor | 2 | |
1149304981 | Enlightenment | intellectual movement stressing the importance of reason and existence of discoverable natural laws | 3 | |
1149304982 | almanac | a combination calendar, astrological guide, and sourcebook of medical advice and farming tips | 4 | |
1149304983 | Half-Way Covenant | plan adopted in 1662 by New England clergy to deal with the problem of declinin g church membership, allowing children of baptized parents to be baptized whether or not their parents had experienced conversion | 5 | |
1149304984 | Congregationalists | members of Puritan churches governed by congregations | 6 | |
1149304985 | Calvinist theology of predestination | belief that God has predestined certain individuals to be saved and others to be damned | 7 | |
1149304986 | Great Awakening | north american religious revival in the middle of the eighteenth century | 8 | |
1149304987 | New Lights | people who experienced conversion during the revivals of the Great Awakening | 9 | |
1149304988 | Old Lights | religious faction that condemned emotional enthusiasm as part of the heresy of believing in a personal and direct relationship with God outside the order of the church | 10 |