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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The principal motivation shaping the earliest settlements in New England was | religious commitment and devotion |
| Compared with the Plymouth Colony, the Massachusetts Bay Colony was | larger and more economically prosperous |
| One reason that the Massachusetts Bay Colony was not a true democracy is | only church members could vote for the governor and the General Court |
| One distinctive feature of Rhode Island Colony is that | it enjoyed the most complete religious freedom of all the English colonies |
| Before the first settlement in New England, local Indian population had been devastated by | disease epidemics caused by contact with fisherman |
| The Indian tribe that first encountered the English colonists in New England were the | wampanoags |
| The puritan missionary efforts to convert the Indians to Christianity were | mostly weak and ineffective |
| King Phillip's war represented | the last major Indian effort to halt New Englands' encroachment on their lands |
| The primary value in the New England Confederation lay in | providing the first small step to intercolonial cooperation |
| The event that sparked the collaps of the Dominion of New England was | the glorious revolution in england |
| The Dutch colony of New Netherlands was | harshly and undemocratically governed |
| The short-lived Swedish colony conquered by the Dutch New Netherlands was | New Sweden |
| William Penn's colony of Pennsylvania | actively sought settlers from Germany and other non-British countries |
| The middle colonies of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware | had more ethnic diversity than either New England or the southern colonies |
| Besides Pennsylvania, quakers were also heavily involved in founding | New Jersey and Delaware |
| The dominant religious group in Massachusetts bay | Puritans |
| Founder of the most tolerant and democratic of the middle colonies | William Penn |
| Mass flight from the religious dissidents from persecutions of Archbishop Laud and Charles I | Great Puritan Migration |
| Small colony that eventually fused into Massachusetts Bay | Plymouth |
| Religious dissenter convicted of heresy and antinomianism | Anne Hutchinson |
| Indian leader who successfully waged war against New England | King Phillip |
| German monk who began the protestant reformation | Martin Luther |
| Religious group persecuted in Massachusetts and New York, but not Pennsylvania | quakers |
| Representative assembly of Massachusetts Bay | General Court |
| Promoter of Massachusetts Bay as a "city upon a hill" | John Winthrop |
| Conqueror of New Sweden who eventually lost New Netherlands to England | Peter Stuyvesant |
| Reformer whose religious ideas inspired English Puritans, Scotch Presbyterians, French Hugenots and Dutch Reformed | John Calvin |
| Wampanoag chieftain who befriended English Colonists | Massasoit |
| Colony whose government sought to enforce God's Law on believers and non-believers alike | Massachusetts Bay |
| Radical founder of the most tolerant New England Colony | Roger Williams |
| Sixteenth-century reform movement started by Martin Luther | protestantism |
| English Calvanists who sought a thorough cleansing from within the Church of England. | Puritans |
| Radical Calvanists who thought the Church of England so corrupt that they broke with it and formed their new and independant churches | Separatists |
| The shipboard agreement signed by the Pilgrim Fathers to establish a body politic and submit to majority rule | Mayflower Compact |
| Puritan term for the belief that Massachusetts Bay had a special arrangement with God to become a holy society | covenant |
| Charles I's political action of 1629 that led to persecution of the Puritans and the formation of the Massachusetts Bay Company. | dismissal of parliament |
| The two major nonfarming industries of Massachusetts Bay. | fishing and shipbuilding |
| Anne Hutchinson's heretical belief that the truly saved need not obey human or divine law. | antinomianism |
| Common fate of Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson after they were convicted of heresay in Massachusetts Bay. | Banishment or exile |
| Villages where New England Indians who converted to Christianity were gathered. | "praying" villagies |
| Successful military action by the colonies united in the New England Confederation. | King Phillip's War |
| English revolt that also led to the overthrow of the Dominion of New England in America. | Glorious revolution |
| River valley where vast estates created an aristocratic landholding elite in New Netherland and New York. | Hudson |
| Required, sworn statements of loyalty or religious belief, resisted by Quakers. | test oaths |
| Common activity in which the colonists engaged to avoid the restictive, unpopular Navigation Laws. | smuggling |
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