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Religious history - Review for Midterm

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Protestant sect that emphasized a strong moral code and believed in predestination   Calvinists  
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Believed that the Church of England could be purified through reforms; included the Puritans   Non-Separatists  
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Leader of the Pilgrims; developed private land ownership and helped the Plymouth colony survive   William Bradford  
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An experiment in communal living in Massachusetts; founded by a number of intellectuals and transcendentalist   Brook Farm  
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Group that established a commune in NY; practiced polygamy, communal property, free love, and communal raising of children   Oneida Community  
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First governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony; believed that the colony was best governed by a small group of skillful leaders   John Winthrop  
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Believed that the Church of England could not be reformed and so started their own congregations; included the Pilgrims   Separatists  
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French Protestants; many immigrated to America in the 18th century when France denied religious freedom to Protestants   Huguenots  
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Most successful revivalist of the 1800s; emphasized charity; leader of the Second Great Awakening   Charles Finney  
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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  
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Philosophy that held that each person had direct communication with God and Nature; stressed intuition; individualism, and self-reliance   Transcendentalism  
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Allowed the children of church members who hadn't achieved grace themselves to participate in some church affairs   Half-way Covenant  
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Maryland law that assigned penalties for insults to other religions; guaranteed religious freedom to all Christians   Toleration Act  
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Founded by Ann Lee, this group believed in celibacy and recruiting new members through conversion   Shakers  
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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  
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Part of the Great Awakening; gave sermons about sin; most famous sermon is "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"   Jonathan Edwards  
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Most famous preacher of the Great Awakening; famous throughout the colonies   George Whitefield  
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Founded Mormonism; was assassinated   Joseph Smith  
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A Utopian settlement in Indiana founded on socialist principles by the British socialist, Robert Owen; expensive failure   New Harmony  
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Woman who preached that God communicated directly to individuals instead of through the church elders   Anne Hutchinson  
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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  
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Sudden outbreak of religious fervor that swept through the colonies; one of the first events to unify the colonies   Great Awakening  
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Established congregational church leaders who resented the new religious movements of the Great Awakening   Old Lights  
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Seventh-Day Adventists who believed that the Second Coming would be in 1843 or 1844   Millerites  
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Communities founded by followers of the French utopian socialist, Charles Fourier   Phalanxes  
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Founded the colony of Maryland as a haven for Catholics but offered religious freedom to all Christians   Lord Baltimore  
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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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