| A | B |
|---|
| Pilgrims | "Separatists" who fled persecution in England |
| Puritans | English Protestants, who wanted a simpler form of worship |
| 1692 | Salem witch trials took place |
| Puritan's beliefs | Religion is a personal, inner experience, humans are wicked by nature, chosen few can be saved through the grace of God, education is essential |
| Grace | The Puritan Ideal-God's special favor - only way to escape an eternity in Hell |
| Display Grace | through self-reliance, personal responsibility, industriousness, temperance, simplicity |
| Puritan Government | Laws came from God, revealed in scripture: 10 commandments |
| Puritan Literature | Bible and religious texts - every person's responsibility |
| Puritan's Writing | Sermons, essays, and poems on spiritual and religious subjects to explore their lives for signs of grace |
| Puritan's Plain Style of Writing | way of writing that stresses simplicity and of expression/avoids figure of speech |
| Age of Faith gave way to | the Age of Reason |
| Puritan's Disappear? | culture absorbed into colonial mainstream |
| Puritan Legacy added to society: | individual rghts and responsibility, equality of individuals, literac and education, spiritual and worldly rewards for hard work |
