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| In 1686, New England, in conjunction with NY and NJ, consolidated under the royal authority -- James II. Charters and self rule were revoked and the king enforced mercantile laws. The new setup also made for more efficient administration of English Navigation Laws, as well as a better defense system. The Dominion ended in 1688 when James II was removed from the throne. |
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| They were a group of religious reformists who wanted to "purify" the Anglican Church. Their ideas started with John Calvin in the sixteenth century and they first began to leave England in 1608. Later voyages came in 1620 with the Pilgrims and in 1629, which was the Massachusetts Bay Colony. |
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| Pilgrims that started out in Holland in the 1620s who traveled over the Atlantic Ocean on the Mayflower. These were the purest, most extreme Pilgrims existing, claiming that they were too strong to be discouraged by minor problems as others were |
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| Members of the Religious Society of Friends. They believe in equality of all peoples and resist the military. They also believe that the religious authority is the decision of the individual (no outside influence.) Settled in Pennsylvania. |
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| mid 1600s; a commitment made by the Puritans in which the seriously dwelled on working and pursuing wordly affairs |
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| A contract made by the voyagers on the Mayflower agreeing that they would form a simple government where majority ruled |
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| In 1639 the Connecticut River colony settlers had an open meeting and they established a constitution. It amde a Democratic government. It was the first constitution in the colonies and was a beginning for the other states' charters and constitutions. |
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| Immigrated from the Mass. Bay Colony in the 1630s to become the first governor and led a religious experiment. He once said, "we shall be a city on a hill" |
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| A religious belief developed by John Calvin held that certain number of people were predestined to go to heaven by God. This belief in th eelect, or "visible saints," figured a major part in the doctrine of the Puritans who settled in New England during the 1600s. |
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| Primary ideabehind Calvinism; states that salvation of damnation are foreordained and unalterable; first put forth by Calvin in 1531; was the core belief of the Puritans who settled New England in the seventeenth century. |
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| Spearatists; worried by "Dutchification" of their children they left Holland on the Mayflower in 1620; they landed in Mass; they proved that people could live in the new world. |
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| New Enlgand Confederation |
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| A Union of four colonies consisting of the two Mass colonies (Bay colony and Plymouth colony) and the two Connecticut colonies (New Haven and scattered valley settlements) in 1643. The purpose of the confederation was to defend against enemies such as the Indians, French , Dutch and prevent intercolonial problems that effected all four colonies. |
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| Set of belief that Puritans followed. In the 1500s John Calvin, the founder, preached virtues of simple worship, strict morals, pre-destination and hard work. This resulted in Calvinist followers wanting to practice religion, and it brought about wars between Huguenots (French Calvinists) and Catholics, that tore the French kingdom apart. |
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| One of the first settlements in New England; established in 1630 and became a major Puritan colony. Became the state of Mass. Originally where Boston is located. It was a major trading center, and absorbed the Plymouth community. |
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| A religious dissenter whose ideas provoked and intense religious and political crisis in the Mass. Bay Colony between 1636 and 1638. She challenged the principles of Mass.'s religious and political system. Her ideas became known as the heresy of Antinomianism, a belief that Christians are not bound by moral law. She was latter expelled with her family and followers, and went and settled at Pocasset (RI) |
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| He was bainished from the Mass Bay colony for challenging Puritan ideas. He later established Rhode Island and helped it to foster religious toleration |
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| A pilgrim that lived in north colony called Plymouth Rock in 1620. He was chosen governor 30 times. He also conducted experiments of living in the wilderness and wrote about them; well known for "Of Plymouth Plantation". |
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| English Quaker; "Holy Experiment"; persecuted because he was Quaker; 1681 he got a grant to go over to the New World; area was Pennsylvania; "first American advertising man"; freedom of worship. |
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