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| Series of events in the 16th century by which the Church of England (Anglican Church), broke away from the authority of the pope, and the Roman Catholic Church. |
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Calvin elaborated upon Martin Luther’s ideas which created the idea of Calvinism.
Calvinism – God was all-powerful and good. Calvinism also depends upon a system of predestination, which eliminated the idea of “good works” to achieve salvation. |
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| The Church of England which is anti-catholic. Puritans try to ‘purify’ the church. |
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| The way Puritans decided who was going to heaven and who was going to hell. Though there were no ways of accurately determining who was an elect and who wasn’t. The Puritans used their intuitions as a guide to find the elects. |
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| The ‘purest’ of the Puritans who attempted to reform the Anglican Church from within, but was dismissed by Charles I in 1629 and sanctioned the anti-Puritan persecution. |
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| An agreement among the Puritans and their leader which spoke about how they would be governed, and proved to be one of the first constitutional democracies in the Americas. |
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| Elected 30 times as governor, and was the New Puritan Leader. Bradford is also given credit for proclaiming Thanksgiving |
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| A protestant group who separated from England’s church due to persecution. |
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| When the Puritans moved from England onto the Americas due to persecution from the Anglican church. |
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| Religious leader of congregational church. Heavily devoted to upholding religious rules |
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| Commitment to work and to engage in wordly pursuits |
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| She was a smart, strong-willed, and talkative woman. She challenged Puritanism by attacking predestination. She claimed that a holy life was no sure sign of salvation, and that if you’re truly saved than you can do anything you wish whether good or evil. |
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| The idea that if predestination was true, than we can do as many bad deeds as we wish, and still go to heaven, and vice-versa. |
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| He was a Salem Minister with radical ideas. Encouraged a separation from the Church of England, and ended up banished from the Bay Colony for his dangerous ideas. He later fled to Rhode Island and endorsed an idea of religious tolerance which made Rhode Island more liberal than any of the other English settlements in the New World. |
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| Leader of a group of Boston Puritans; he eventually founded the Colony of Connecticut. |
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| Written in Connecticut, the Fundamental Orders represented perhaps the first form of government created. Held the objective of limiting government power. |
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| One of the few Native Americans who spoke English. He helped the English colonists in Massachusetts develop survival skills such as agricultural techniques and hunting. |
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| Also known as Metacom, was the chief of the Wampanoag tribe of Indians and was the leader of the conflict against the southern New England colonists in the King Phillip’s War. |
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| New England Confederation |
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| A union which represented Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven. Believed in “Mutual Safety and Welfare” but undertook a more important role by trying to break the Native American power in the King Phillip’s War. |
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| A confederation. When colonies began to become more independent, King James I establishes the Dominion of New England in order to have control over all of New England’s colonies . |
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| Designed to restrict the trading and shipping process between the mother land England and its colonies. |
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| British policy which aimed at avoiding the enforcement of parliamentary laws. England wanted the colonies to flourish and be obedient to England |
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| An explorer and navigator whose quest was to find a shortcut routing from Europe to the Far East. |
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| He was the last Dutch Director- General of New Netherlands. Defending England from the invasion of New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant played an important role in the early history formation of New-York |
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