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England and America (Pages 249-258)
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James I
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The only son of Mary Queen of Scots who ruled over Scotland and England
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Pilgrims
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A group of Separatists who fled to Holland and later sailed to America
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1611
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The date of the completion of the King James Bible
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Jamestown
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The first permanent English settlement in the New World
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Plymouth
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Established by fleeing English Separatists in 1620
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Charles I
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James I's son who had a disdain for Parliament and a stubborn belief in the divine right of kings
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Petition of Right
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Reaffirmed the liberties and rights which Englishmen had won in the past
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Eleven Years' Tyranny
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Charles' rule over England without Parliament's or the peoples' consent
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William Laud
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Archbishop of Canterbury who determined to make the Anglican church more like the Roman church and strengthen the king's power
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Massachusetts
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Founded in 1630
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National Covenant
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Established by the Scottish people, pledging to resist any attempt to change their religious institutions without their consent
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Long Parliament
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A measure passed by Parliament that prevented the king from dissolving the assembly
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Grand Remonstrance
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A document that stated additional grievance against the king
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Roundheads;
Cavaliers
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Supported Parliament;
Supported the king
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English Civil War
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Began officially on August 22 1642
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Oliver Cromwell
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A military genius for Parliament and raised the "New Model Army" which came to be called "Ironsides"
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Battle of Naseby
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The Roundheads decisively defeated the Cavaliers and sent the king fleeing to Scotland
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Rump Parliament
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Declared King Charles I guilty of treason and beheaded him
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Commonwealth
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England's new republic government
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Protectorate
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Cromwell dissolved Parliament and set up as Lord Protector over this new government
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Charles II
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Charles I's exiled son who was in favor of religious toleration.
Several colonies were founded under him
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Treaty of Dover
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Charles II secretly signed this with King Louis XIV of France to obtain toleration from English Catholics and join the Roman church himself
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Whigs
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A Parliamentary group who opposed Charles II's increasing Catholicism
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John Milton
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His works such as "Paradise Lost" were possibly only second the Shakespeare
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John Bunyan
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Wrote England's greatest allegory, Pilgrim's Progress
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Metaphysical Poets;
Cavalier poets
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Wrote about the mind, soul, and others concepts in order to express spiritual truths;
Wrote lyrical poems about love and the pleasures of this world
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English Bill of Rights
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Supported by William III and Mary II which permanently established English traditional political liberties
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Glorious Revolution
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Made in 1688 as a bloodless transition of government
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Anne
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Became the last Stuart monarch of England
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1707
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England and Scotland joined to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain
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Philipp Spener
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A Lutheran pastor who became concerned with spiritual coldness in Germany and started the Pietists
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August Francke
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A young professor at the University of Leipzig who lead in education
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Brethren
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German Baptists who broke with the state church
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Moravians
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Aka Unitas Fratum
Founded by John Huss
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Count Nicholas von Zinzendorf
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An important Moravian leader who opened his estate in Saxony as a refuge for persecuted Moravians
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Jonathan Edwards
Definition
Wrote "Sinners in the hands of an Angry God"
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George Whitfield
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The best-known Great Awakening evangelist
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