Religion
Religious group known for their tolerance, emphasis on peace, and idealistic Indian policy
Quakers
Also known as sumptuary laws, they were designed to restrict personal behavior in accord with a strict code of morality
Blue Laws
Intense religious experience that confirmed and individual's place among the "elect" or the "visible saints"
Conversion
Agreement to form a majoritarian government in Plymouth, signed aboard the Mayflower
Mayflower Compact
Armed conflict between royalists and parliamentarians, resulting in the victory of pro-Parliament forces and the beheading of Charles I
English Civil War
Dominant theological credo of the New England Puritans based on the teachings of John Calvin
Calvinism
Series of laws passed, beginning in 1651, to regulate colonial shipping
Navigation Laws
Belief that the elect need not obey the law of either God or man; most notably espoused in the colonies by Anne Hutchison
Antinomianism
Weak union of the colonies in Massachusetts and Connecticut led by Puritans for the purpose of defense and organization
New England Conferation
Unofficial policy of relaxed royal control over colonial trade and only weak enforcement of Navagation Laws
salutary neglect
English Protestant reformers who sought to purify the Church of England of Catholic rituals and creeds
Puritans
First formal statute governing the treatment of slaves, which provided for harsh punishments against offending slaves but lacked penalties for the mistreatment of slaves by masters
Barbados Slave Code
Predestination
Representation parliamentary assembly created to govern Virginia, establishing a precedent of government in the English colonies
House of Burgesses
Frontier farmers who illegally occupied land owned by others or not yet officially open for settlement
squatters
Small group of Puritans who sought to break away entirely from the Church of England
Sepratist
Passed in Maryland, it guaranteed toleration to all Christians but decreed the death penalty to those, like Jews and Atheist, who denied the divinity of Jesus Christ
Act of Toleration
Migration of seventy thousand refugees from England the North American colonies, primarily New England and the Caribbean; The twenty thousand that who came to Massachusetts largely shared a common purpose - to establish a model Christian settlement in the New World
Great English Migration
Administrative union created by the royal authority, incorporating all of New England, New York and East and West Jersey.
Domain of New England
Began with an Indian attack on New Bern, North Carolina. After the Tuscaroras were defeated, remaining Indian survivors migrated northward, eventually joining the Iroquois Confederacy as its sixth nation
Tuscarora War
Overthrow, in 1688, of the Catholic King James II of England. Rebellious English nobles replaced James II with Protestant William of Orange in a bloodless coup
Glorious Revolution
Drafted by settlers in the Connecticut River Valley, this document was the first "modern constitution" establishing a democratically controlled government
Fundamental Orders
Established by non-separating Puritans, it soon grew to be the largest and most influential of the New England Colonies
Massachusetts Bay Colony
In politics, a territory between two antagonistic powers, intended to minimize the possibility of conflict between them
buffer
Series of assaults by Metacom on English Settlements in New England. The attacks slowed the westward migration of New England settlers of decades
King Philips War