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| Agreed that only "visible saints" should be admitted to church membership. They wanted to purify the Church of England. The "saints" did not want to share pews and communion with the "damned." |
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| The most extreme type of Puritans. They wanted to completely break away from the church. They were known as the purest puritans. |
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| Religious leader who became influenced by Martin Luther's ideas and created the theory of Calvinism. Calvinism became dominant. Calvinism is the belief that God is all knowing, therefore he knows who is going to Heaven and who is going to hell. |
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| The theory that some souls-the elect- had been destined for Heaven and some for hell. Good works could not save those who are predestined those going to hell. |
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| Was thought to be the moment in which one person knew if they were saved or not. It was thought to be an intense, identifiable personal experience in which God recealed to the elect their heavenly destiny. |
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| A group of separatists from Holland in 1608 who boarded the Mayflower. They sought a refuge (America) where they could live and die as purified Protestants. They endede up landing on the shore of Plymouth Bay. They brought forth the first Thanksgiving Day in New England. Led by William Bradford. |
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| A pact created by the Pilgrim leaders which became the first steop toward a genuine self-government. It was not a constitution, but simply an agreement that agreed everyone will submit to the will of the majority when they reached the New World (America). |
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| Led by governor John Winthrop who helped Massachusetts prosper as fur trading fishing and ship-building. They wrote their own constitution and elected their own officials. Non-separatist Puritans got a charter with the Massachusetts Bay Company. |
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| Questioned the authority of the Puritan Clergy who were often persecuted. They were Pacificts who disliked violence. |
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| An intelligent and strong-willed woman who qyestioned the Puritan doctrine of predestinatin. SHe claimed that a holy life was no sure sign of salvation and that the truly saved should not bother to obey the law of God or man (Antinomianism). Hutchinson was then banished and therefore she set out to New York. |
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| An extreme separatist who hounded his clergymen to make a clean break with the corrupt Church of England, challenged the legality of the Bay Colony's charter and denied the authority of civil government to regulate religious behavior. He was eventually banished and fled to Rhode Island. |
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| At Providence, Williams bilt a Baptist church, most likely the first in America. There he established a complete freedom of religion even for Jews and Catholics and the abused Quakers. Rhode Island was the most liberal of all the colonies. There was also no mandatory church attendance, no taxes to support church and simple manhood suffrage. |
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| Consisted of 2 Massachusetts Colonies and 2 Connecticut Colonies. It mainly served as a common defense against Native Americans. |
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| He was the head of the Dominion of England who also promotes the first American Revolution. He taxed people without consent of representatives and strove to suppress smuggling. He oppressed the people of Old England. |
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| Because James II was not well liked, they wanted a new ruler. William III and his wife Mary took over, who were protestants. New England was no longer ruled by catholics. It caused the Dominion of England to collapse. |
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| The Dutch Republic became a leading colonial power. The Dutch East India Company > The Dutch West India Company- established outposts in Africa and a thriving sugar industry in Brazil which was the center of activity to the New World at one point. New Netherland (1623-1624), established by the DWIC. About to be wiped out by the New England Confederation. |
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The Middle Colonies, New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania all had:
-Fertile soil (heavy exporting grain)
-River System (successful for trade)
-Very "middle class": what historians consider this the beginning of "American Culture" |
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