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Hude Semester Exam
Semester Exam Review Mr. Hude English 11 St. Andrews
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English
11th Grade
10/04/2011

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King Phillip's War
Definition
  • Against the contract
  • Anyone who violated law was to be sent to their own tribe for their own government
  • Three native Americans and the colonist hung them
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Theocracy
Definition
  • Type of religious belief that becomes  the political basis of law in a society
  • God's laws rule
  • Based on Revelation
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Mayflower Compact
Definition
  • Civil covenant
  • Basis of democracy
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Orature
Definition
type of communication and literature that uses word of mouth and gesture; very animated
Term
Magnalia Christi Americana
Definition
The Works of Christ in America by Cotton Mather
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Covenant of Grace

 

Definition

New covenant in Christ sealed at his crusifiction

Covenant of blood

Because he died for our sins, we have mercy

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Puritans
Definition

Anglicans who remained a part of the church of England

Felt that the church could be reformed from within

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Separtists
Definition
Anglicans who left the church of England because they felt like it couldn't be reformed at all
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Literature
Definition

Colonial American literature written by a colonist who experienced America

Usually a British reader

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Diego Colon
Definition

Taino Native American

Evidence natives weren't brutal savages(educated)

Interpreter for Columbus

Broke the idea of brutal savages

 

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"Yet I see, when God calls a person to anything, and through never so many difficulties, yet He is fully able to carry out them through and make them see, and say that they have been gainers thereby."

Definition
Rowlandson; Captivity and Restoration
Term

"Make me, O Lord, Thy Spinning Wheel complete"

Definition
Taylor; Huswifry
Term

"I believe that never were more satanical devices used for the unsettling of any people under the sun, than what have been employed for the extirpation of the vine which God has here planted…."

Definition
Mather; Wonders of the World
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"I kenning through Astronomy Divine…"

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Taylor; Meditation 8
Term

"There was a proud and very profane young man, one of the seaman, of a lusty, able body, which made him the more haughty; he would always be contemning the poor people in their sickness,…"

Definition
Bradford; Of Plymouth Plantation
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"Being but six or seven in company he went down the river to Kecoughtan where at first they scorned him as a famished man would in derision offer him a handful of corn, a piece of bread for their swords and muskets, and such proportions also for their apparel. But seeing by trade and courtesy there was nothing to be had, he made bold to try such conclusions as necessity enforced; though contrary to his commission, [he] let fly his muskets,…."

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John Smith; General History
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". . . He shall make us a praise and glory that men shall say of succeeding plantations, 'the Lord make it like that of New England.' For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a by- word through the world."

Definition
Winthrop; A Model of Christian Charity
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The Great Awakening
Definition
A phrase applied to a great revival of emotional religion in America, the movement being at its height about 1740-1745 under the leadership of Jonathan Edwards. It arose as an effort to reform religion and morals. Relgion, under the "Puritan hierarchy" led by Mathers, had become rather formal and cold, and the clergy somehwhat arrogant. The revival meeting began as early as 1720 in New Jersey. 1740-1742 Edwards conducted a long 'revival' at Northampton, Massachusets, preached in other cities and published many sermons, including Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. The conservatives or Old Lights, representing the stricter Calvinists, led by the faculties of HArvard and Yale, protested against the excesses of the movement
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