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| 303321930 | predesination | Calvinist doctrine that God has selected some people to be saved and some to be damned | |
| 303321932 | select | Calvinst doctrine those who have been chosed by God for salvation | |
| 303321934 | conversion | religious turn to God - involves intense didentifiable personal experience of grace | |
| 303321937 | visible saints | Calvinism those who publicly proclaimed their experience of conversiona were expected to lead godly lives | |
| 303321939 | calling | belief that saved individuals have a religious obligation to engage in worldly word to go God's work on this earth | |
| 303321941 | heresy | departure from correct or officially defined belief | |
| 303321943 | seditious | rebellion against the government | |
| 303321946 | commonwealth | organized civil government or social order united for a shared purpose | |
| 303321948 | autocratic | absolute or dictatorial rule | |
| 303321950 | asylum | place of refuge and security | |
| 303321952 | proprietary | concerning exclusive legal ownership - colonies granted to individuals by monarch | |
| 303321954 | blue laws | laws designed to restrict personal behavior in accordance with a strict code of morality | |
| 303321956 | antinomianism | it claimed that a holy life was no sure sign of salvation and the truly saved need not obey the laws of God or man | |
| 303321958 | Martin Luther | German monk who began the Protestant Reformation | |
| 303321960 | John Calvin | Reformer whose religiousideas inspired English Puritans, Scoth Presbyterians, French Huguenots and Dutch Refomed | |
| 303321964 | Calvinism | Emphasized a strong moral code and believed in predestination (the idea that God decided whether or not a person would be saved as soon as they were born). | |
| 303321966 | Massasoit | Wampanoag chieftain who befriended English colonists | |
| 303321968 | Plymouth | established by religious seperatists seeking a free place from the Church of England; sailed on the Mayflower in 1620 after getting a charter from the Virginia Company; by the end of the century, Plymouth had become the colony of Massachusetts | |
| 303321970 | Massachusetts Bay Colony | John Winthrop called this colony "A City upon a Hill" | |
| 303321972 | Massachusetts Bay Colony | -was a "Bible Commonwealth"—a democracy run on Biblical principles -royal charter given to the Puritans -economy based on fur trading fishing and ship building - 1630 | |
| 303321974 | John Winthrop | ..., Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, envisioned colony as a "city upon a hill" | |
| 303415300 | Great Puritan Migration | Mass flight by religious dissidents from the persecutions of Archbishop Laud and Charles I | |
| 303415301 | General Court | elected representative assembly in the Massachusetts Bay Colony | |
| 303415302 | Puritans | A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay. | |
| 303415303 | Quakers | English dissenters who broke from Church of England, preached a doctrine of pacificism, inner divinity, and social equity, under William Penn they founded Pennsylvania | |
| 303415304 | Anne Hutchinson | Religious radical who attracted a large following in Mass. She stated that people can achieve salvation without the church, Convicted of Antinomian heresy. Banished to Rhode Island in 1638. | |
| 303415305 | Roger Williams | Popular Salem minister radical ideas; wanted to make clean break with corrupt church of England probably built first Baptist church; established complete freedom of religion; Banish from Mass. Bay Colony and founded colony of Rhode Island | |
| 303415306 | King Philip | English name for Metacon who forged an alliance among Indians to try to end the spread of English settlement | |
| 303415307 | King Philip | Leader of the Native Americans who kept attacking settlers in New England. After he was killed, his head was displayed on a pole for 25 years | |
| 303415308 | Peter Stuyvesant | conquer of New Sweden who later lost Netherland to English | |
| 303415309 | William Penn | Penn, an English Quaker, founded Pennsylvania in 1682, after receiving a charter from King Charles II the year before. He launched the colony as a "holy experiment" based on religious tolerance. | |
| 303415310 | Mayflower Compact | 1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony. | |
| 303415311 | patroonships | Vast estates along the Hudson River established by the Dutch. They had difficulty attracting peasant labor, and most were not successful. | |
| 303415312 | Protestant Reformation | a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches | |
| 303415313 | doctrine of the covenant | Puritan belief that whole purpose of government was to enforce God's laws | |
| 303415314 | Bible Commonwealth | government in which religious officals make civil rules. name for the Massachusetts Bay colony that refers to its tax supported churches and visible saints | |
| 303415315 | Protestant ethic | way of life based on Biblical teaching that God expects all men to work and all work is a noble duty to be performed toward God | |
| 303415316 | Thomas Hooker | Puritan minister who founded the colony of Conneticuit in 1639. | |
| 303415317 | Fundamental Orders | Set up a unified government for the towns of the Connecticut area. The first constitution written in America. | |
| 303415318 | Ferdinando Gorges | led failed attempts at colonizing fishermen on the coast of Maine; absorbed by Massachusetts Bay | |
| 303415319 | Squanto | Native American who assisted the Pilgrims after their first winter in the New World and was integral to their survival. | |
| 303415320 | Pequot War | 1637- war between the colonists and the Pequot tribe- ended in destruction of the tribe and uneasy peace | |
| 303415321 | Metacom | aka King Philip, Native American ruler, who in 1675 led attack on colonial villages throughout Massachusetts | |
| 303415322 | New England Confederation | Military alliance between the New England colonies. Created because of frequent attacks by Indians, the Dutch, and the French, and because England was in a civil war and wasn't going to send aid. Lasted until 1684. - first attempt at colonial unity | |
| 303415323 | Navigation Laws | laws that regulated trade to benefit England's Mercantilist system- only allowed colonies to trade with Britain | |
| 303415324 | Sir Edmund Andros | appointed by James II as governor of the Dominion of New England. Was strict about enforcing laws; the colonists hated him | |
| 303415325 | salutary neglect | period of time where the Navigation Laws were weakly enforced | |
| 303415326 | Dutch West Indies Company | trading company established New Netherlands; attracted English, French Huguenots, Swedes, Jews, and free Africans | |
| 303415327 | New Amsterdam | a settlement established by the Dutch near the mouth of Hudson River and the southern end of Manhattan Island | |
| 303415328 | New Netherlands | the Dutch called this land claimed by Henry Hudson in New York this name | |
| 303415329 | Henry Hudson | Discovered what today is known as the Hudson River. Sailed for the Dutch even though he was originally from England. He was looking for a northwest passage through North America. | |
| 303415330 | William Penn | first American advertising man - noted for sending out agents and pamphlets printed in foreign languages to recruite settler for Pennsylvania | |
| 303415331 | Penn's Woodland | Pennsylvania | |
| 303415332 | Chief Tammany | Indian who sold land to William Penn | |
| 303415333 | bread colonies | A nickname given the Middle Colonies because they grew grains such as wheat that were exported to New England and Southern Colonies | |
| 303467657 | Restoration colonies | King Charles paid back supporters(restorers) with land in America. Carolina, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania | |
| 303467658 | proprietary colonies | colonies owned by persons who had been given a royal charter to own the land | |
| 303467659 | royal colonies | directly controlled by the king through an appointed governor | |
| 303467660 | charter colonies | colony established by a group of settlers who had been given a formal document allowing them to settle |