| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Settlers in New England | Male Protestants; didn't have same problems with Native American as settlers in Chesapeaker did because most died of small pox |
| Plymouth | Founded by Pilgrims (puritan Separatists) |
| William Bradford | Led Pilgrims to New England; Put together the Mayfower Compact because they wanted to migrate to America to maintain english identity in 1620 and settled near cape cod |
| Mayflower Compact | An agreement that said whatever laws we make, we agree to obey them. Put together by William Bradford and said they were their own government |
| City upon a hill | An example for the world, everybody looks up to you. An allusion to Jesus' sermon/ Thought to be closer to Jesus/Heave |
| Congregationalist | ordinary members of the Puritan churches They are called congregational churches because they didn't have a hierarchy so every church was independent of the others. Each group of parishioners would covenant together to create a church |
| Cotton Mather | a prominent puritan theologian (a puritan who studies god). He believes in supernatural signs |
| Puritans | migrated to New England because they thought England was Corrupt |
| Massachusetts Bay Colony | founded by John Winthrop; had a representative political system |
| Roger Williams | Minister of Puritan Church in Salem; questioned Puritans seizure of Indian land and though they should pay indians; believed in separation of church and state' banished from colony; Founder of Providence |
| Anne Hutchinson | A wife who Accused Boston clergy men of putting too much emphasis on good behavior; thought god revealed divine truth to individual behavior; put on trial for being guilding of holding heretical views and was banished; founded Rhode Island |
| Thomas Hooker | Founded Hartford in 1636 |
| Connecticut | 1636 - Hartford; 1662 - charted form Charles II authorized Charterd Colony |
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