| A visionary radical Protestant sect whose
members believed in an Inner Light that brought
them close to God, equality in religious
and social life, pacifism, and defiance of
authority when it denied their rights to
practice their religion. |
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| The name given to any prominent Englishman to whom the king granted
vast areas of land in colonial North America. |
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| This was used in Virginia to encourage immigration
by giving 50 acres of land to any settler
who brought a servant. |
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| This Virgina settler married and experiments
with growing tobacco in the colony. |
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| English Protestants who wished not only to
rid the Church of England of its Catholic
traditions, but also to reform English society;
they came to New England to set up a model
community as an example to the rest of Europe. |
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| In 1635 he was banished from the Massachusetts
Bay Colony because he said that the government
had no authority over the personal opinions
of individuals. He founded Rhode Island as
a colony for religious freedom. |
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| This Quaker viewed his colony as a "Holy
Experiment." |
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| A radical separatist group of English Protestants
who settled at Plymouth in order to be left
alone to lead a pure and religious life. |
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| Mostly young and single European immigrants
who entered into work contracts for a specified
period of years in exchange for free passage
to America and sometimes a promise of land
at the end of the contract. |
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| This adventurer instituted military discipline
and perhaps saved the Virginia colony at
Jamestown. |
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| An attempt by New England clergymen in 1662
to counteract declining church membership
by allowing the children of church members
to join even though they had not experienced
salvation. |
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| This prominent New England clergyman helped
bring the Salem witchcraft trials to a close. |
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| An interpretation of Puritan doctrine associated
with Anne Hutchinson that stressed mystical
elements in God's grace and diverged from
orthodox Puritan views on salvation. |
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| This Puritan theologian was the leader of
the first Great Awakening in New England. |
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| This law allowed freedom of worship for all
Christians in Maryland to keep the peace
between Catholics and Protestants there. |
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| He led about 1000 Puritans to America in
1630 and was elected the first governor of
the Massachusetts Bay Colony. |
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| He led a rebellion in Virginia against the
autocratic government of Lord Berkeley in
the late 17c. |
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| A prominent humanitarian, he led a group
of settlers and helped found the colony of
Georgia in 1732. |
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| This New York newspaper editor made a written
attack on the corrupt royal governor and
was arrested on the basis of seditious libel.
However, after a trial, he was found not
guilty. |
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| He led an uprising in New York in the name
of King William IV against the Anglo-Dutch
ruling elite. |
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