Ch. 4
Which statement characterizes Puritan communities in the first half of the 17th century?
A high degree of religious conformity.
What major change occurred in New Netherland in 1664?
New Netherland became New York.
Who served as leaders of Quaker congregations?
Ordinary men and women
What did the Puritan doctrine of predestination teach about salvation?
A sovereign God, before creation, knew who would receive salvation.
How did the Boston church punish Anne Hutchinson for challenging Puritan ideas of conformity?
Excommunication and banishment
What was 17th century New England's major export?
Fish
What did members of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, believe?
God spoke to each individual through an "inner light."
How did King Henry VIII respond to the Protestant Reformation?
He made himself the head of the Church of England (Anglican).
Who argued that the Puritans should be "a city upon a hill" that would inspire the rest of the world?
John Winthrop
Why did the Wampanoag Indians attack New England settlements in 1675?
New Englanders had been steadily encroaching on land the Indians needed to survive.
What statement characterizes 16th century English Puritanism?
Puritans wanted to ride the Church of England of many features of Catholicism.
Which colony started by Roger Williams attracted dissenters through the protection of "Liberty of Conscience?"
Rhode Island
Who left Massachusetts for Connecticut in 1636 after clashing with church leaders over the requirements for church membership?
Thomas Hooker
What was William Penn's goal for this new colony?
To establish a "holy experiment" and refuge for Quakers in the Americas.
Unlike immigrants who settled in the Southern colonies, the migration to Puritan New England included...
a great number of complete families.
King Philip's War (1675-1678) left New England settlers with...
an enduring hatred of Indians.
The Puritans, who described themselves as Separatists (Pilgrims) believed that...
the Church of England was corrupt beyond redemption.
The Navigation Acts of the 1650s and 1660s were designed to regulate colonial trade in order to...
yield revenues for the crown and English merchants.
Compared to the colonies to the north and south, the population of New Netherland was...
diverse.
The official Indian policy in 17th century Pennsylvania...
instructed agents to respect the land claims of nearby tribes.
When they settled in the New World in 1630, the Puritans of the Massachusetts Bay Company...
pictured themselves as a select few chosen by God to preserve true Christianity in America.
In 1686, England created the Dominion of New England, a new government consolidation that...
placed all colonies north of Maryland under more direct control by England.
in 1688, the Glorious Revolution in England influenced American colonists to...
rise up against royal authority established by the Dominion of New England.
Unlike colonists in the Chesapeake region, New England colonists...
settled in towns that looked inward to the Puritan meetinghouse.
The witch trials held in Salem, MA in 1692...
signaled the erosion of religious confidence and assurance in New England.