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18 Cards in this Set
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1451-1506 Genoese mariner who discovered the Americas while searching for a new trade route to India.
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Christopher Columbus
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Colonial settlements established for economic or financial purposes by various companies. Although usually chartered by the Crown, their remote circumstances helped foster the idea and practice of self governance.
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Corporate Communities
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1585-1622 Virginia colonist who pioneered the cultivation of tobacco as a profitable agricultural enterprise. Rolfe also married Pocahontas in 1614.
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John Rolfe
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Land owners would pay the passage of those willing to come to the colonies in exchange for an agreed-upon term of service, after which the indentured servant was released from his obligation and was then free to seek his own fortune.
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Indentured Servitude
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An assembly of representatives elected by the common people of the Virginia colony, similar to the House of Commons.
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House of Burgesses
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Settlements based on religious or moral values mostly interested in being an example to Europe or living according to their own moral liberty.
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Covenant Communities
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Small congregation of separatists seeking to distance themselves physically and spiritually, from the Church of England by emigrating to New England.
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Pilgrims
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1550-1630 Writer and proponent of the Separatist movement that demanded separation from the Church of England. His writings inspired groups such as the Pilgrims to emigrate to American for religious freedom.
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Robert Brown
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British religious emigrants who wanted to reform the Church of England rather than sever all ties with it; their beliefs in the Christian Calling, Moral Self-Governance, and in being God's Elect would help shape the Founding and American national character.
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Puritans
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1509-1564 a French theologian during the Protestant Reformation who greatly influenced Puritan beliefs. He taught tat the Bible was the final authority for matters of faith and that salvation came through grace only (not works). He also taught the doctrine of predestination.
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John Calvin
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From John Calvin's predestination theology, the doctrine that God has already chosen those who will be saved. These elect people are to build a holy community as an example.
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God's Elect
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From the theology of John Calvin--people should pursue a "calling" in some wort of worldly work where they are to rise early in the morning, work hard, save their money, and invest it wisely. Prosperity indicates God's approval.
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The Christian Calling
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Puritan ideal that all must live a righteous life largely on their own, with each man being responsible for his own actions and those of his family--with an eye on his neighbor as well.
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Moral Self-governance
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1587-1649 elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony before their departure from England, and reelected many times.
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John Winthrop
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Latin for clean slate or blank slate. puritans felt that the new world was a clean slate on which mankind could begin the human story anew.
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Tabula Rasa
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Biblical idea, invoked by John Winthrop, of a society governed by civil liberty (where people did only that which was good and just) that would be an example to the world.
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City on a hill
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Where men are free to do what they please without regard for the moral value of their actions.
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Natural Liberty
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According to John Winthrop, "Where men were free to do only that which is good, just and honest."
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Civil Liberty
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