Unit 1, Chapter 3

Question 1

Predestination

Answer 1

Calvinist doctrine that God has collaborated some people to be saved in some to be damned

Question 2

Conversion

Answer 2

Intense religious experience that confirmed an individuals place among the elect or the visible saints

Question 3

Puritans

Answer 3

English Protestant reformers who sought to purify the Church of England of Catholic rituals and creeds

Question 4

Separatists

Answer 4

Small group of Puritans who sought to break away entirely from the Church of England

Question 5

Mayflower compact

Answer 5

Agreement to form a majoritarian government in Plymouth (1620)

Question 6

Massachusetts bay colony

Answer 6

Established by non-separating puritans

-it grew the largest and most influential of the New England colonies (1629)

Question 7

Anne Hutchinson

Answer 7

Belief in Antinomianism

-banished to Rhode Island in 1638

Question 8

Roger Williams

Answer 8

Banished from Massachusetts to Rhode Island

Question 9

Pequot war

Answer 9

(1636-1638) clashes between English settlers and Pequot Indians
-Connecticut River Valley

Question 10

King Philip’s war

Answer 10

(1675-1676) assaults by Metacom, king Philip on English settlements in New England

Question 11

New England confederation

Answer 11

(1643) weak union of the colonies in Massachusetts and Connecticut
- led by Puritans for defense and organization

Question 12

English civil war

Answer 12

(1642-1651) armed conflicts between royalists and parliamentarians
-victory of Charles I execution

Question 13

Dominion of New England

Answer 13

(1686-1689) administrative union created by royal authority, incorporating all New England, New York, and east and west New Jersey

Question 14

Navigation laws

Answer 14

Series of laws passed in 1651 to colonial shipping
-they sought to stitch England’s overseas possessions more tightly to the motherland by using American trade with non-English countries

Question 15

Glorious (or bloodless) revolution

Answer 15

(1688-1689) peaceful overthrow of unpopular Catholic monarchs James I I, replaced by Dutch born William I I I (protestant)

Question 16

Salutary neglect

Answer 16

(1688-1763) unofficial policy of relaxed royal control over colonial trade and only weak enforcement navigation laws
-lasted from glorious Revolution - French and Indian war

Question 17

Patroonships

Answer 17

Vast tracts of land along Hudson river in new Netherlands granted to wealthy promoters in exchange for bringing 50 settlers to the property

Question 18

Quakers

Answer 18

Religious group known for their tolerance and idealistic Indian policy

• Pennsylvania
• democratic people

Question 19

Blue laws

Answer 19

Designed to restrict personal behavior in accord with the strict code of morality

• blue laws were passed across the colonies particularly in Puritan new England and Quaker Pennsylvania
• Supplementary laws

Question 20

Calvinism

Answer 20

Dominant theological credo of the new England Puritans based on the teachings of John Calvin
-predestination