Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies 1619-1700

Question 1

Asylum

Answer 1

a place of refuge and security, especially for the persecuted or unfortunate

Question 2

Autocratic

Answer 2

absolute or dictatorial rule

Question 3

Blue Laws

Answer 3

laws designed to restrict personal behavior in accord with a strict code of morality

Question 4

Calling

Answer 4

in Protestantism, the belief that saved individuals have a religious obligation to engage in worldly work

Question 5

Commonwealth

Answer 5

an organized civil government or social order united for a shared purpose

Question 6

Congregationalism

Answer 6

form of Protestant Church government in which the local congregation is independent and self governing; in the colonies, the Puritans were Congregationalists

Question 7

Conversion

Answer 7

a religious turn to God, thought by Calvinists to involve an intense, identifiable personable experience of grace

Question 8

Elect

Answer 8

in Calvinist doctrine, those who have been chosen by God for salvation

Question 9

Ethnic

Answer 9

concerning diverse peoples or cultures, specifically those of non Anglo Saxon background

Question 10

Heresy

Answer 10

departure from correct or officially defined (religious) belief