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Became Pilgrims
sparatosts that vowed to break away from the churst of england
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Seperatist came from
Holland
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Pilgrims on the mayflower that were separatists
less than half
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Mayflower Compact
Set of rules, set standards for later constitutions,
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William Bradford
chosen governor of Plymouth 30 times though he hated democracy
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John Winthrop
Governor or deputy for 19 years, help massachusettts
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Ann Hutchinson
believed in antinomianism, banished for stating her beliefs were directly from god
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Roger Williams
denied that civil government could and should gorvern religious behavior, lead the way for the Rhode Island colony
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Reverend Thomas Hooker
Led Puritans to Connecticut
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Fundamental Orders
made in 1639 by the settlers of new Connecticut River colony, basically a modern constitution
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1637
English settlers and Peqote tribe fought Pequot War
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New England Confederation
Massachusetts, connecticut, unite a common enemy, Indian wars, Pequot war and king philips war
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Dominion of New England
forced by king james 2, New england colonies, new jersey and new york
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Goals of Dominion of New England
Resrtict colonial trade
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Sir Edmund Adros
Eliminated town meetings, taxed without the consent, Collapsed after glorious revolution
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Glorious revolution and William and mAry to the crown
The dominion of England Collapsed
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Henry Hudson
ventured into delaware and new york bay, claimed for the Netherlands
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Patroonships
large areas of land
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One legged Peter Stuyvesant
besiege the main swedish fort, ending swedish colonial rule
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William Penn
secure an immense grant from the king, of quaker faith,
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Middle colonies
new york, new jersey, delaware, and Pennsylvania
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Conversion
a religious turn to god, thought by calvinists to involve and intense, identifiable personal experience of grace
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Visible Saints
In Calvinism, those who publicly proclaimed their experience of conversion and were expected to lead godly lives.
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blue laws
law designed to restrict personal behavior in accord with a strick code of morality
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Seditious
concerning resistance to or rebellion against the government
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CAlling
in protestantism, the belief that saved individuals have a religious obligation to engage in worldly work
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Common wealth
an organized civil gorvernment or social order united for a shared purpose
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