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conversion | When a person gets a personal revelation from God about a religion, event, or other that helps them convert to that event. |
elect | Puritan vocabulary. Meant those who were God's chosen. |
visible saints | Puritan vocabulary. Puritans who were visably one of the "elect" by their way of living and behavior. |
MayFlower Compact | Signed aboard the Mayflower ship by Puritans. Significant as one of the first examples of emerging democracy in the New World. |
Separatists | Left the Anglican (Church of England) Church for the New World feeling reform wasn't possible. |
Anne Hutchinson | Dissenter in Massachusetts Bay colony who believed in the Calvinist doctrine of predestination, angering Puritan leaders. |
Roger Williams | Puritan dissenter who said that the Massachusetts Bay Colony Charter was not legal because the natives were not paid for the land. Williams founded Rhode Island. |
Rhode Island | Most tolerant of the colonies towards religion as it allowed all forms. |
Fundamental Orders | Established in the Connecticut River colony. It established a form of democracy controlled by "substantial" citizens. |
King Philips War | Sometimes called Metacom's War. Armed conflict between the Puritans and their former native alies. Lasted from 1675 to 1676 and signaled the lasting defeat of New England Indian tribes. |
New England Confederation | Organized to help colonial defenses. |
Dominion of New England | Created by English government to help defend those colonies and make it easier to run them. |
New Netherland | Colony established by the Dutch to promote fur trading. Later taken over by the English and became New York. |
Quakers | Settled Pennslyvania. Believed in fair relations with the natives and were pacifists. |
Middle Colonies | Fertile soil and diverse populations |