| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Narraganset | Tribe of Indians |
| atheist | people who believe in no God |
| tenet | a basic idea |
| Society of Friends | Society of the Quakers |
| martyr | a person who die for their beliefs |
| gallows | place where people are hung |
| retaliate | to fight back or |
| tomahawk | a war club |
| King Phillip's War | War between colonists and Wampanoag Indians |
| The Pequot War | War betwwen colonists and Indians against the Pequot |
| Roger Williams | Puritan mnister who was kicked out of MA Bay |
| Gov. John Winthrop | Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| freedom of conscience | freedom of each person to follow own mind and heart |
| separation of church and state | state government should not have relationship with a church |
| oath of allegiance | agreement between two groups |
| divine right of kings | the right that the church gave the right to kings to rule |
| self-righteous | people that believe they know the truth |
| God's elect | group of people who were going to go to heaven when born |
| Fundamental Orders | constitution establishing a democratic state controlled by citizens |
| proprietor | an owner -- particularly one of those granted ownership of, and full governin rights over, certain of the English colonies in North America |
| John Cotton | religious leader of Puritans in Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| Anne Hutchinson | Puritan dissenter banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony who fled to Rhode Island in 1638 |
| Mary Dyer | friend of Anne Hutchinson, became a Quaker, moved to Massachusetts, put on trail for her beleifs, was not hung but was forced to go away, she came back and was killed |
| Cotton Mather | New England Puritan minister, remembered for his connection to salem witch trails |
| Thomas Hooker | 1586-1647 Puritan minister who founded the colony of Conneticuit in 1639. |
| Massasoit | Wampanoag leader |
| Wamsutta/Alexander | Son of Massasoit and leader of Wampanoag, brother of King Phillip |
| Metacom/King Phillip | Son of Massasoit, brother of Alexander, leader of Wampanoag Indians in King Phillip's War |
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