Key terms and concepts in Chapter 3.
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| 907326521 | predestination | The Calvinist doctrine that God has foreordained some people to be saved and some to be damned. | 1 | |
| 907326522 | elect | In Calvinist doctrine, those who have been chosen by God for salvation. | 2 | |
| 907326523 | conversion | A religious turn to God, thought by Calvinists to involve an intense, identifiable person experience. In order to vote in Massachusetts Bay Colony, one had to publicly testify about their conversion experience. | 3 | |
| 907326524 | visible saints | In Calvinism, those who publicly proclaimed their experience of conversion and were expect to lead godly lives. | 4 | |
| 907326525 | calling | In Protestantism, the belief that saved individuals have a religious obligation to engage in worldly work. This concept permeated all aspects of Puritan life in the MBC. | 5 | |
| 907326526 | heresy | Departure from correct or officially defined belief. Anyone who strayed even the slightest from the local government's interpretation of religion was a heretic. Some famous dissenters include Roger Williams (founded Rhode Island) and Anne Hutchinson. | 6 | |
| 907326527 | commonwealth | An organized civil government or social order. Most of the colonies had this type of semi-autonomous government. | 7 | |
| 907326528 | passive resistance | Nonviolent action or opposition to authority in accord with religious or moral beliefs. The Quakers were strong believers in passive resistance and so, they never retaliated with violence, though they were often duplicitous. | 8 | |
| 907326529 | proprietary | Concerning exclusive legal ownership, as of colonies granted to individuals by the monarch. King James gave 8 proprietary lords a charter for Delaware that they then owned and ran as they saw fit. | 9 | |
| 907326530 | blue laws | Laws designed to restrict personal behavior in accord with a strict code of morality. Blue laws were especially prevalent in the New England colonies where everyone was expected to live their lives to the highest standard of godliness. | 10 | |
| 907326531 | Separatists | advocates of secession or separation from the Anglican Church of England. They were a small, radical group of Protestants and made up Plymouth colony while reformers (Protestants who wanted to reform the Anglican Church) made up the MBC. | 11 | |
| 907326532 | the Great Migration | The Great Migration occurred in the 1630s and during this time period, nearly 70,000 people left England. However, not all of them were Puritans and not all of them went to Massachusetts; a lot favored the West Indies. | 12 | |
| 907326533 | antinomianism | the idea that a holy life was no sure sign of salvation and that the truly saved need not obey neither man's nor God's laws. | 13 | |
| 907326534 | Fundamental Orders | Essentially a modern constitution drawn up by settlers in Connecticut that established a regime democratically controlled by substantial citizens. | 14 | |
| 907326535 | Pequot War | This war erupted between settlers in the Connecticut River valley and the Pequot Indians in 1637 and ended with the complete destruction of the Pequot tribe, which was left virtually annihilated | 15 | |
| 907326536 | King Philip's War | In 1675, an Indian chief called King Philip by the settlers created an Indian alliance and attacked a bunch of villages in New England. When the war ended a year later, 52 towns had been attacked, 12 destroyed, and King Philip was beheaded and his head displayed on a pike for years. | 16 | |
| 907326537 | New England Confederation | Four colonies (Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, and the two Connecticut colonies) created what was basically an exclusive Puritan club. They acted together on intercolonial matters. | 17 | |
| 907326538 | Dominion of New England | Another attempt at punishing MBC. It was imposed from London and it included all of New England, New York, and (later) East and West Jersey. Was an effort at bolstering the colonies in case of war with the Indians. Led by Sir Edmund Andros. He crushed all vestiges of autonomy/self government in the colonies. | 18 | |
| 907326539 | Navigation Laws | The Dominion was designed to administrate these Laws, which sought to force the colonies to buy English exports. However, smuggling quickly became a standard profession as it found people a way around the Laws. | 19 | |
| 907326540 | Glorious Revolution | Dethroned the unpopular King James II and led to the collapse of the Dominion. However, Massachusetts did not get back its ancient charter (instead made royal colony) and the right to vote was extended to all male property holders. Mostly, led to the salutory neglect of the enforcement of the Navigation Laws. | 20 |
