Apush chap 3 Flashcards
- Martin Luther
- Martin Luther was a German priest.
- Was a theologian(study of God)
- Write ‘’95- theses’’
- Luther declared that the Bible alone was the source of God’s word
- Protestant Reformation
was a religious movement in the the 16th century that fought to return catholic church practices.
- John Calvin
Was a religious leader
- French theologian.
- He elaborated Martin Luther’s ideas
Calvinism:
Branch of Protestantsism based on the ideas of John Calvin. It gives importance to the power of God.
Puritans
Purtians were english people who wanted to make the Church of England purer.
Presbyterians/Huguenots
- general term for anyone who was a calvinist (God should come first belief)
- Huguenots=french calvinist(God should come first belief)
- predestination
The idea that God has alredy decided who goes to heaven and who wont.
conversion
changing a persons beliefs or religion.
- Henry VIII/Church of England
He was king of england from 1509-1547. Hes known for starting church of england. He started it because the Catholic Church wouldnt allow forhis marriage. The church of england was also known as the Anglican Church
- Puritans=
were people Who wanted to make the Church of England pure. They wanted to change the ways of the church because they didn’t like it.
Separatists
tiny group of dedicated Puritans, known as Separatists, vowed to break away entirely from the Church of England.
- James I
James I was the King of England from 1603 to 1625 he’s known for commissioning the King James Bible. Was part of the Stuart dynasty.
- Mayflower=
is a ship that carried pilgrims to America in 1620 it brought them from England to the New World. Plymouth Bay is in Massachusetts
‘’Mayflower, sixty-five days at sea, missed its destination and arrived off the stony coast of New England in 1620 with a total of 102 persons’’
- half of the people on board were separatists.
Plymouth Bay
is in Massachusetts.
Their initial Landing was Plymouth Rock but it didn’t happen so they went to Plymouth Bay which was the pilgrim’s first home in America.
- Captain Myles Standish
‘’Captain Shrimp.” was an Indian fighter/ negotiator/military leader. leader of the pilgrims who settled in Plymouth Colony.
- Mayflower Compact
this was an agreement that was signed by the pilgrims in 1620. This was the first document in the Plymouth Colony.
This document was not a constitution but a simple agreement to form a government and to submit to rules agreed upon. The compact was signed by forty-one adult males, eleven of them with the exalted rank of “mister,” though not by the servants and two seamen.
- Thanksgiving
The next autumn, that of 1621, brought bountiful harvests and with them the first Thanksgiving Day in New England. The holiday is to celebrate the first harvest the pilgrims had in America.
- William Bradford
self-taught scholar who read Hebrew, Greek, Latin, French, and Dutch. He was chosen governor of the colony thirty times in the annual elections. He feared that non-Puritan settlers might corrupt his godly experiment in the wilderness. He wrote a book called ‘’Plymouth Plantations’’
- Charles I/Archbishop Laud
He was the first king of England from 1625-1649. He dismissed Parliament and got beheaded. He hired Archbishop Laud. The Archbishop was an advisor to Charles 1. Charles 1 supported the Anglican church. Archbishop Laud Tried to put on practices to the Church of England which created problems. The archbishop was arrested by the parliament in 1640.
- Massachusetts Bay Company
This was a group of investors that created the company in 1629 to develop land in New England. They found the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Boston became its hub.