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Religion
Religious history - Review for Midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Protestant sect that emphasized a strong moral code and believed in predestination | Calvinists |
| Believed that the Church of England could be purified through reforms; included the Puritans | Non-Separatists |
| Leader of the Pilgrims; developed private land ownership and helped the Plymouth colony survive | William Bradford |
| An experiment in communal living in Massachusetts; founded by a number of intellectuals and transcendentalist | Brook Farm |
| Group that established a commune in NY; practiced polygamy, communal property, free love, and communal raising of children | Oneida Community |
| First governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony; believed that the colony was best governed by a small group of skillful leaders | John Winthrop |
| Believed that the Church of England could not be reformed and so started their own congregations; included the Pilgrims | Separatists |
| French Protestants; many immigrated to America in the 18th century when France denied religious freedom to Protestants | Huguenots |
| Most successful revivalist of the 1800s; emphasized charity; leader of the Second Great Awakening | Charles Finney |
| Term referring to the region of western of NY that was the site of fervent revivals by Pentecostals during the Second Great Awakening | Burned-Over District |
| Philosophy that held that each person had direct communication with God and Nature; stressed intuition; individualism, and self-reliance | Transcendentalism |
| Allowed the children of church members who hadn't achieved grace themselves to participate in some church affairs | Half-way Covenant |
| Maryland law that assigned penalties for insults to other religions; guaranteed religious freedom to all Christians | Toleration Act |
| Founded by Ann Lee, this group believed in celibacy and recruiting new members through conversion | Shakers |
| Religion of the Enlightenment; belief that God existed had created the world, but that had left the world to run by its own natural laws; compared God to a watchmaker | Deism |
| Part of the Great Awakening; gave sermons about sin; most famous sermon is "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" | Jonathan Edwards |
| Most famous preacher of the Great Awakening; famous throughout the colonies | George Whitefield |
| Founded Mormonism; was assassinated | Joseph Smith |
| A Utopian settlement in Indiana founded on socialist principles by the British socialist, Robert Owen; expensive failure | New Harmony |
| Woman who preached that God communicated directly to individuals instead of through the church elders | Anne Hutchinson |
| Believed in separation of church and state; argued that the colonists should purchase land from the Indians; driven out of Massachusetts Bay Colony and went on to found Rhode Island | Roger Williams |
| Sudden outbreak of religious fervor that swept through the colonies; one of the first events to unify the colonies | Great Awakening |
| Established congregational church leaders who resented the new religious movements of the Great Awakening | Old Lights |
| Seventh-Day Adventists who believed that the Second Coming would be in 1843 or 1844 | Millerites |
| Communities founded by followers of the French utopian socialist, Charles Fourier | Phalanxes |
| Founded the colony of Maryland as a haven for Catholics but offered religious freedom to all Christians | Lord Baltimore |
| Led the Mormons to the Great Salt Lake Valley in Utah where they founded the Mormon republic of Deseret | Brigham Young |
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