history test 1
mayflower compact
A covenant the Pilgrims entered into to provide order, security, and a claim to legitimacy when they arrived in present day massachusetts.
anne hutchinson
A dissenting Protestant woman who preached criticism of the colony's leaders to the distress of the governor, John Winthrop.
roger williams
A dissenting Puritan minister whose disagreements with New England's regulation of religious life and policies towards Indians led to his expulsion from the colony.
thomas hooker
A prominent minister in the Massachusetts Bay Colony who disagreed with other leaders in the colony over the exclusion from Church of men and women who lived godly lives but who had not experienced conversion
halfway covenant
A puritan compromise that allowed the unconverted children of the "visible saints" to baptize their own children even though they were not full members of the church themselves.
Puritans could do nothing to alter God's ruling on their fate
According to the Puritan doctrine of predestination, how could one achieve salvation after death?
king philips war
After decades of encroachment of Indian lands, Metacomet led Wampanoag Indians in attacks on colonial settlements that led to this conflict in western Massachusetts in 1675.
arminianism
Belief, heretical to Puritans, that good works could help an individual gain salvation.
calvinism
Christian doctrine of a sixteenth-century Swiss Protestant theologian; its chief tenet was predestination.
diverse
Compared to the colonies to the north and south, the population of New Netherland was
predestination
Doctrine stating that God determined whether individuals were destined for salvation or damnation before their birth.
under control of the Dutch
During most of the seventeenth century, New Netherland was
john winthrop
Elected governor by the stockholders of the Massachusetts Bay Company, this individual led a large number of Puritan emigrants to Massachusetts in 1630.
puritan revolution
English civil war that arose out of disputes between King Charles I and Parliament.
quakers
Epithet for members of the Society of Friends.
william bradford
First governor of the Plymouth colony elected by the Pilgrims.
edmund andros
Following the revocation of the Massachusetts charter and the creation of the Dominion of New England in 1684, the English appointed this individual to govern the dominion.
separatists
Heretical people who sought withdrawal from the Church of England.
Hutchinson preached that many of the colony's leaders affirmed the covenant of works.
How did Anne Hutchinson stir religious controversy in early Massachusetts?
He made himself the head of the Church of England
How did King Henry VIII respond to the Protestant Reformation?
As dangerous to the Puritan faith and social order
How did Puritans view Quakers?
He challenged the religious leadership of Massachusetts powerful men
How did Roger Williams gain notoriety in new England?
placed all colonies north of Maryland under more direct control by England
In 1686, England created the Dominion of New England, a new government consolidation that
Rise up against royal authority in northern colonies
In 1688, the Glorious Revolution in England influenced American colonists to
wampanoag indians
Indian in the Massachusetts Bay area who rescued the Pilgrims from starvation by teaching them how to cultivate corn.
antinomians
Individuals who believed that Christians could be saved by faith alone and did not need to act in accordance with God's law set forth in the Bible.
Catholicism
James II was a zealous supporter of which religion?
An enduring hatred of Indians
King Philip's War (1676) left New England settlers with
dominian of new england
Name given Massachusetts and other colonies north of Maryland after English court revoked the Massachusetts charter in 1684.
Protestant Reformation of the early 16th century
New England Puritanism owed its religious roots to the
william penn
Prominent Quaker from and eminent English family who received a land grant from Charles II in 1681.
english reformation
Reform effort initiated by King Henry VIII that included banning the Catholic Church and declaring the English monarch head of the new Church of England.
Yield revenues for the crown and English merchants
The Navigation Acts of the 1650s and 1660s were designed to regulate colonial trade in order to
the Church of England was corrupt beyond redemption
The Puritans, who described themselves as Separatists, believed that
New Jersey and Pennsylvania
The creation of New York led indirectly to the founding of
Instructed agents to respect the land claims of nearby tribes
The official Indian policy in seventeenth-century Pennsylvania
a great number of complete families
Unlike most other immigrants in America's history, the migration to Puritan New england included
God spoke to each individual thought and "inner light."
What did members of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, believe?
A personal relationship with God
What did the English Puritans emphasize instead of the Church rituals?
New Netherland became New York
What major change occurred in New Netherland in 1664?
declining church membership
What problem did the Halfway Covenant address?
To establish a genuinely Quaker colony in the Americas
What was William Penn's goal for his new colony?
fish
What was seventeenth-century New England's biggest export?
The cold weather minimized the spread of life-threatening illnesses
Which factor allowed New England's populating continue to grow steadily during the seventeenth century?
Puritans wanted to rid the Church of England of many features of Catholicism
Which statement characterizes 16th century English Puritanism?
John Winthrop
Who argued that the Puritans should be "a city upon a hill" that would inspire the rest of the world?
thomas hooker
Who left Massachusetts for Connecticut in 1636 after clashing with church leaders over the requirements for church membership?
New Englanders has been steadily encroaching on land the Indians needed to survive
Why did Wampanoag Indians attack New England settlements in 1675?
The diversity of the population prevented them from imposing a uniform religion
Why did the English continue the Dutch policy of religious toleration in New York?
It allowed the government of the company to be located in the colony
Why was the charter of the massachusetts bay company unique?