Ch 5: The Cultures of Colonial North America Flashcards

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