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| English monarch, broke with Rome and seized control of the properties of the Catholic Church in england establishing the nominally protestant church of england. |
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| Reform effort initiated by king henry 8th that included banning the cathlic church and declaring the english monarch head of the new church of england. henrys primary concern was consolidating his political power so the reformed church shared little doctrinally with dissenting protestants |
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| Church of England/Anglicanism |
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| Name given the system of formerly catholic churches in england fallowing the english reformation king henry rather than the pope was the head of the church of england |
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| English monarch, primarily interested in church of england as a tool to strenghtne the monarchy and the nation and sought a middle position between the extremes of catholicism and protestanism. |
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| english monarch who reigned after elizabeth 1. unreceptive to puritan reformers. |
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| succeeds james, 1629 dissolved parlimane and initiated agressive anti puritain polocies |
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| King James II’s policies, such as converting to catholicism, conducting a series of repressive trials known as the "Bloody Assizes," and maintianing a standing army, so outraged the people of England that Parliament asked him to resign and invited King William of the Netherlands (who became known as William II in England), to take over the throne. King James II left peacefully (after his troops deserted him) and King William II and his wife Queen Mary II took the throne without any war or bloodshed, hence the revolution was termed "glorious." |
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| orders an agressive campaign to appoint catholics to gov posts then flees to france when english protestants in par offer the throne to his son in law william. the peaceful accession of william and his wife as corulers is called the glorious revolution |
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| England society was being reformed by puritans in england, not new england. Angry at a corrupt england decided to reform it. |
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| Puritan who lead the parlimentary forces to execeute Charles I and declare england a puritain state |
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| Protestant sect founded by John Calvin. Emphasized a strong moral code and believed in predestination (the idea that God decided whether or not a person would be saved as soon as they were born). Calvinists supported constitutional representative government and the separation of church and state. |
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| The Puritans simply believed that the Anglican Church was too Catholic and needed to be purified. The Puritans were also essentially Calvinists. Many Puritans emigrated from England to America in the 1630s and 1640s. During this time, the population of the Massachusetts Bay colony grew to ten times its earlier population. |
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| sought to serperate from the church of england which they considered hopelessly corrupt (pilgrims) Separatists (which included the Pilgrims) believed that the Church of England could not be reformed, and so started their own congregations. |
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| The Pilgrims were even stricter than the Puritans, and felt that they had to split from the Anglican Church b/c it was too corrupt to ever be reformed. |
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| persons who passed their demanding tests of conversion and church membership, among gods elect (Puritain belife) |
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| The covenant of grace promises eternal life for all people who receive forgiveness of sin through Christ. Covenants of works promised life for obedience and death for disobedience. |
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| before the Creation, God determined the fate of the universe throughout all of time and space. (calvinism) |
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| unconverted children of saints would be permitted to become halfway church members. could baptize their kids but could not participate in communion or have voting privilages |
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| Belived that god spoke directly to each individual through an inner light and that individuals needed neither a preacher nor the bible in order to discover gods word. all human beings were equal in gods eyes. did not conform to laws and governments unless god requested. Newengland communities treated quakers with serverity |
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| She preached antinomianism She was forced to leave Massachusetts in 1637. Her followers (the Antinomianists) founded the colony of New Hampshire in 1639. |
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| the idea that God communicated directly to individuals instead of through the church elders. |
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royal charters were used to create cities (i.e., localities with recognised legal rights and privileges). The date that such a charter was granted is considered to be when a city was "founded", regardless of when the locality originally began to be settled.
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| The British government combined the colonies of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut into a single province headed by a royal governor (Andros). The Dominion ended in 1692, when the colonists revolted and drove out Governor Andros. |
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| Royal Supremacy is specifically used to describe the legal sovereignty Independent authority over a territory of the civil laws over the laws of the Church in England. |
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| he first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony. |
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| Founded by a group of separatists and anglicans, who together later came to be known as the Pilgrim Fathers, Plymouth Colony was, along with Jamestown, Virginia, one of the earliest successful colonies to be founded by the English in North America and the first sizable permanent English settlement in the New England region. |
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| William Penn received a land grant from King Charles II, and used it to form a colony that would provide a haven for Quakers. His colony, Pennsylvania, allowed religious freedom.allowed anyone to emigrate to Pennsylvania, |
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| a dissenting puritan minister whose disagreements with new englands regulation of religios life and policies toward indians led to his expulsion from the colony during his banishment he founded the colony of rhode island in 1636 which enshrined the policy of religious tolleracne |
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| A Pilgrim, the second governor of the Plymouth colony, 1621-1657. He developed private land ownership and helped colonists get out of debt. He helped the colony survive droughts, crop failures, and Indian attacks. |
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| He became the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony. A Puritan with strong religious beliefs. He opposed total democracy, believing the colony was best governed by a small group of skillful leaders. He helped organize the New England Confederation in 1643 and served as its first president. |
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| colonists of New York rebelled and made Jacob Leiser, a militia officer, governor of New York. Leisler was hanged for treason when royal authority was reinstated in 1691, but the representative assembly which he founded remained part of the government of New York. |
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| Massachusetts Bay Company |
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| King Charles gave the Puritans a right to settle and govern a colony in the Massachusetts Bay area. The colony established political freedom and a representative government. |
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| group of MBC stockholders/freemen to meet as body (GC) and make the laws needed to govern the company's affairs. |
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- democratic form of government common in the colonies
- most prevalent form of local government in New England.
- town’s voting population would meet once a year to elect officers, levy taxes, and pass laws.
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| A series of battles in New Hampshire between the colonists and the Wompanowogs, led by a chief known as King Philip. The war was started when the Massachusetts government tried to assert court jurisdiction over the local Indians. The colonists won with the help of the Mohawks, and this victory opened up additional Indian lands for expansion. |
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