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24 Cards in this Set
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1492
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Christopher columbus sailed across the atlantic and reaches the bahamas
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1607
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First permanent English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia
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Purpose for coming to America
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In britian people only owned land if inherited, so they came for land
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1620
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Pilgrims arrived a Plymouth
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Pilgrims were separatist
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separated from the church of England
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Church of England
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wealthy and ceremonial. believe that you get to heaven by deeds.
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Pilgrims believed you get to heaven....
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by faith alone.
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Where did the pilgrims sail from?
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Holland, because they escaped persecution.
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Who led the Mayflower?
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William Bradford.
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What did the pilgrims bring with them to the New World and why was it significant?
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the printing press and it allowed the flow of communication and information.
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1630
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Puritans arraived in Salem, massachusetts.
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Puritans
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were highly educated and good a ship building. Wanted to clean up the church of England. were Calvinist.
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Calvinist belief
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mans salvation is not in the church but in self.
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1636
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first university (havard) opened purpose was to train ministers. Women went to school to learn to read and interpret the bible for themselves.
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Theocracy
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government based on God or diety.
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blue laws
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laws that prevent/restrict certain activities on sunday
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Puritan/Calvinist economic
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capitalism
free enterprise competition profit |
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1642--Boston
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setting of the scarlet letter.
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1840s
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year scarlet letter ws written in Salem and Concord massachusetts
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who was the first american poet? and what was her famous work
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puritan housewife, Ann Bradstreet.
poem- the tenth muse lately sprung up in America |
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Name the 6 tenants of the calvinistic doctorine
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1. the elect.
2. original sin 3. predestination 4. divine providence 5. the calling 6. omen |
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Who wrote sinners in the hands of an angry God.
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Jonathan edwards
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Who wrote a young puritans code
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Jonathan edwards
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Who wrote a Puritan's Days
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Judge Sewall
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