CH 3 (New England Colonies)

set of laws written on Mayflower to ensure Pilgrims had rules to follow (1st Constitution in colonies)

• Pilgrim Compact

• Mayflower Compact

• Thanksgiving Compact

• Freeman Compact

What was the importance of the Mayflower Compact (relate the MC to democracy)?

• 1st government in colonies stating that laws will be made by a single leader, not the majority

• Allowed trade between Pilgrims and the French

• 1st democratic government in colonies stating that laws will be made by the majority, not a single leader

• Allowed Pilgrims to go war with the English

What was the meaning of John Winthrop's comment, "We shall be as a city upon a hill."?

• To have a city in the highest elevation in the world.

• Create a city high enough to avoid Native American attacks.

• To search for heaven.

• Create a model Christian society that the world will look up to/copy

"Freeman" define (relate to Puritan settler)

• Had to be a member of the (Congregational) church to vote

• Had to be an American to vote

• Had to be the first born to vote

• Had to own property to vote

Separatists/Pilgrims

• businesses and government officials who refused to comply with excessive taxation and corruption in the Senate during the Separatist Crisis.

• ancient order of protectors united by their ability to harness the power of the Force

• religious dissenters who wanted to separate from Church of England

• English Protestants who sought to purify the Church of England of Roman Catholic practices

want to fix Ch.ofEng., persecuted by King, very strict interpretation of God

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

• Quakers

• Catholics

removal of Puritans from Eng to New World, looking for religious freedom (majority went to West Indies, large number moved to Massachusetts)

• The Purge

• Great Migration

• Exodus

• Predistination

1st Governor of Mass, believed purpose of Gov. to enforce God's laws

• John Winthrop

• John Smith

• Ben Franklin

• James Ogelthorpe

religious dissenter who felt no reason to follow God's laws based on Predestination

• John Rolfe

• William Penn

• Roger Williams

• Anne Hutchinson

Puritan religious belief that God has already chosen a person's salvation at moment of birth (person can not alter their salvation by good works)

• Predistination

• Emancipation

• Reincarnation

• Personification