Religion in the Colonies
A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England.
What is Puritans?
First successful English colony.
What is Jamestown?
A formal document ,created by pilgrims, that provided law and order to the Plymouth colony
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Famous Quaker and founded Pennsylvania.
Who is William Penn?
Anne Hutchinson's heretical belief that the truly saved need not obey human or divine law.
What is antinomianism?
Religious group who settled Pennsylvania - very tolerant and nonviolent.
What is Quakers?
Colonial puritans who considered themselves people on a religious journey.
What is Pilgrims?
Guaranteed 50 acres of land to anyone who paid the passage of a new indentured servants to the colony.
What is the Headright System?
Questioned the doctrines of the puritan authorities, believed in antinomianism, banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
The theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys.
What is mercantilism?
A period of religious enthusiasm in the american colonies.
What is First Great Awakening?
Colony founded by the Separatist Pilgrims who came over on the Mayflower. Located in New England.
What is Plymouth Colony?
Representative assembly in colonial Virginia.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
Adventurer who instituted military discipline and perhaps saved the Virginia colony.
Who is John Smith?
A hands-off policy of England towards its American colonies during the first half of the 1700s.
What is Salutary Neglect?
Preacher during the First Great Awakening; "Sinners in the hands of angry God."
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
Puritan colony in New England; founded by John Winthrop in 1630.
What is Massachusetts Bay Colony
A series of laws that required the colonists to trade only with Great Britain.
What is the Navigation Acts?
Lord Baltimore; founded Maryland as a haven for Catholics.
Who is George Calvert?
System under which a colony was operated as a business by an individual or group.
What is Proprietorship?
Famous sermon by John Winthrop; puritans attempted to build a model for the world.
What is "City on a Hill"?
Started Rhode Island as a safe place for persecuted religions.
Who is Roger Williams?
Maryland law that forbade religious persecution, religious freedom.
What is the Act of Toleration (1649)?
His case established truth as a defense for libel and made him a symbol of the freedom of the press.
Who is John Peter Zenger?
A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.
What is Manumission?