Puritain beliefs
What did Puritans believe was the main way to achieve salvation?
What is living a pious and righteous life according to God’s word?
Who was the leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and one of the most well-known
Who is John Winthrop?
What was the primary economic activity in Puritan New England?
What is farming?
What event in 1692 led to the execution of 20 people in Massachusetts?
What is the Salem Witch Trials?
What year did the Pilgrims arrive in Plymouth?
What is 1620?
The Puritans followed a strict interpretation of which religious book?
What is the Bible?
Who was the famous Puritan minister who led the Great Awakening?
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
In Puritan society, what role did women typically hold?
What is managing the household and children?
Which war fought in the 1670s led to the destruction of many Puritan settlements?
What is King Philip’s War?
What was the name of the ship the Pilgrims sailed on to the New World?
What is the Mayflower?
What was the Puritans’ view on predestination?
What is the belief that God has already chosen who will be saved and who will not?
Which Puritan leader wrote the influential book "The Puritan Way of Life"?
Who is Cotton Mather?
Puritans believed that education was important. What was the name of the first public school law in the colonies?
What is the Old Deluder Satan Act?
In 1636, Puritans founded which university to educate future ministers?
What is Harvard University?
Which Native American helped the Pilgrims by teaching them how to grow crops?
Who is Squanto?
What did Puritans believe about the church and state?
What is that the church should be separate from the government?
Which Puritan minister became known for his role in the Salem Witch Trials?
Who is Samuel Parris?
What was the Puritans’ view on entertainment?
What is that most forms of entertainment were sinful or distracting from worship?
Which leader’s banishment in 1636 led to the founding of Rhode Island?
Who is Roger Williams
Where did the Puritans first land when they came to America before moving to Massachusetts?
What is Plymouth?
What did Puritans think of "free will"?
What is that humans do not have the power to choose salvation on their own, as it is determined by God?
Who was the first governor of the Plymouth Colony?
Who is William Bradford?
What was the Puritans’ attitude toward holidays like Christmas?
What is that they were viewed as pagan and not to be celebrated?
What was the name of the first great religious movement in the American colonies, which began in the 1730s and was led by Puritans like Jonathan Edwards?
What is the First Great Awakening?
What document did the Pilgrims sign that established a self-governing colony?
What is the Mayflower Compact?