The meeting of 3 peoples Flashcards
Ponce De Leon
Made it as far north as Florida
encomienda system
Spanish government’s policy to “commend”, or give, Indians to certain colonists in return for the promise to Christianize them. Part of a broader Spanish effort to subdue Indian tribes in the West Indies and on the North American mainland.
Protestant reformation
ixteenth century religious reform movement begun by Martin Luther
Puritans
Dominant religious group in Massachusetts Bay Colony
counter catholic reformation
The movement in the 16th century within the Catholic church to reform itself as a result of the Protestant Reformation.
Required, sworn statements of loyalty or religious belief, resisted by Quakers
teslotes
Reformer whose religious ideas inspired English Puritans, Scotch Presbyterians, French Huguenots, and Dutch Reformed
John Calvin
Conqueror of New Sweden who later lost New Netherland to the English
Peter Stuyvesant
River valley where vast estates created an aristocratic landholding elite in New Netherland and New York.
Hudson River Valley
English Calvinists who sought a thorough cleansing from within the Church of England
Protestants
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
Radical founder of the most tolerant New England colony
Roger Williams
Anne Hutchinson’s heretical belief that the truly saved not obey human or divine law
Antinomianism
King phillips war
Successful military action by the colonies united in the New England Confederation..