Chapter Three
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Settling the Northern Colonies
1619-1700
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Visible Saints | in Calvinism, those who publicly proclaimed their experience of conversion and were expected to lead godly lives. |
| Predestination | the belief that what happens in human life has already been determined by some higher power |
| Separatists | English Protestants who would not accept allegiance in any form to the Church of England. Included the Pilgrims and Quakers |
| Non-Separatists | Another name for the Puritans who arrived in New England in 1629 due to oppression and persecution by the English Crown. While in England, these Puritans believed they must remain within the Church of England to reform it. |
| 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 |
| Antinomianism | the theological doctrine that by faith and God's grace a Christian is freed from all laws (including the moral standards of the culture) |
| Blue Laws | Laws designed to restrict personal behavior in accord with a strict code of morality. Passed across the colonies, particularly in Puritan New England and Quaker Pennsylvania. |
| Glorious Revolution | In this bloodless revolution, the English Parliament and William and Mary agreed to overthrow James II for the sake of Protestantism. This led to a constitutional monarchy and the drafting of the English Bill of Rights. |
| Dominion of New England | 1686-The British government combined the colonies of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut into a single province headed by a royal governor (Andros). Ended in 1692, when the colonists revolted and drove out Governor Andros |
| Salutary Neglect | Throughout the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the English government did not enforce those trade laws that most harmed the colonial economy. The purpose of salutary neglect was to ensure the loyalty of the colonists in the face of the French territorial and commercial threat in North America. The English ceased practicing salutary neglect following British victory in the French and Indian War. |
| Quakers | English dissenters who broke from Church of England, preache a doctrine of pacificism, inner divinity, and social equity, under William Penn they founded Pennsylvania |
| Confederation of New England | created in 1643, when four colonies banded together in New England. Primary purpose was for defense against the natives, French, and Dutch. |
| John Calvin | (1509-1564) French humanist whose theological writings profoundly influenced religious thoughts of Europeans. Developed Calvinism at Geneva. Wrote Institutes of Christian Religion |
| John Winthrop | John Winthrop immigrated from the Mass. Bay Colony in the 1630's to become the first governor and to led a religious experiment. He once said, "we shall be a city on a hill." |
| John Cotton | prominent Mass minister, believed that only the spiritual "elect" should have any authority, to become "elect" they have a conversion experience, caused dissension in colony and would eventually lead to the founding of new colonies |
| Roger Williams | He founded Rhode Island for separation of Church and State. He believed that the Puritans were too powerful and was ordered to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious beliefs. |
| Anne Hutchinson | Preached the idea that God communicated directly to individuals instead of through the church elders. Was forced to leave Massachusetts in 1637. Followers (the Antinomianists) founded the colony of New Hampshire in 1639. |
| Thomas Hooker | A Puritan minister who led about 100 settlers out of Massachusetts Bay to Connecticut because he believed that the governor and other officials had too much power. He wanted to set up a colony in Connecticut with strict limits on government. |
| Metacom | Chief of the Wampanoag Indians who led an attack on villages throughout New England. This was the largest conflict in 1675. |
| Sir Edmund Andros | English military man affiliation with Church of England laid heavy restrictons on the courts the press, and the schools, and revoked all land titles he tried to escape wearing women clothing when boston mob tries to catch him he was sent back to england |
| Peter Stuyvesant | The governor of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, hated by the colonists. They surrendered the colony to the English on Sept. 8, 1664. |
| Willam Penn | quaker who founded colony in North America |
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