Chapter 3

Question 1

Predestination

Answer 1

The Calvinist doctrine that no amount of good deeds or good works could save those destined for hell from that destiny. The same idea applied to those who were saved, their actions did not affect that.

Question 2

Puritans

Answer 2

Members of the Church of England who sought to purify what they believed was a faith that was too close to Catholicism.

Question 3

Separatists

Answer 3

Zealous Christians who felt that they needed to break away from the Church of England in order to truly worship in the proper manner.

Question 4

Mayflower Compact

Answer 4

While this was not a constitution it was an invaluable step towards self government in the New World. It established a simple majority rules government for the Pilgrims.

Question 5

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Answer 5

This was a well equipped expedition that was begun with almost 1000 settlers. It would become one of the most profitable of all of the colonies.

Question 6

John Winthrop

Answer 6

The governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony who said that he wanted this colony “to be as a city upon a hill.” Meaning he wanted the colony to become something to be emulated throughout the world.

Question 7

Roger WIlliams

Answer 7

Founder of Rhode Island. He established a remarkably free colony that became the refuge for many cast offs from other colonies.

Question 8

King Phillip’s War

Answer 8

This war between the Puritans and the Indian chief Metacom, known as King Phillip to the English, this war slowed the westward march of the English for several decades. More importantly it completely wiped out Indian resistance in New England.

Question 9

English Navigation Laws

Answer 9

Laws that sought to tie the colonies more closely to England, but forcing them to trade only with British controlled ports.

Question 10

Salutary Neglect

Answer 10

A time period where the Navigation Laws and others laws that controlled trade were only loosely enforced. This time period led Colonists to harshly resent the trade laws later, when they are strictly enforced again.

Question 11

William Penn

Answer 11

Founder of Pennsylvania. He established a Quaker colony that contained not only good farmland, and ample timber, but also America’s largest city, Philadelphia. Pennsylvania was also a place where relations with Native Americans were better than average.

Question 12

Blue Laws

Answer 12

Laws that could be found in Pennsylvania that prohibited ungodly behaviors, things such as playing dice or cards, dancing, stage plays, or excessive hilarity.