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| Rejecting traditional moral law as being unnecessary for salvation because of justification by faith. |
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| Agreement where the leaders of Massachusetts Bay decided that the colony would be ruled locally. |
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| The Congregational Church in Boston through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. |
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| Congregational Church decision that allowed the children and grandchildren of full members to become partial members. |
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| Conservative Congregational Church decision that tried and failed to reverse the non-conformist tide, which would culminate in the Great Awakening. |
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| Also known as King Phillip. He led the Native Americans in the largest war against the Puritains in 1676, which is named after him. |
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| New England Confederation, 1943 |
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| Confederation that briefly tried to untie the Puritan colonies against the native Americans. Dissolved soon after King Phillip's war. |
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| Attempt by the Crown to unite the New England colonies under royal power, failed because colonies resented being stripped of their traditional rights. |
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| Attempt by the Crown to unite the New England colonies under royal power, failed because colonies resented being stripped of their traditional rights. |
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| Main governor of the Dominion of New England. Not well liked. Overthrown in the 1689 Boston Revolt. |
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| Legal grant of land to settlers begun in Jamestown. |
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| Early Jamestown settler who first cultivated tobacco (besides Indians) and married Pocahontas. |
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| Royalist Supporter in the English Civil War |
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| Armed rebellion against Virginia governor Berkley. Partially to do w/ grievances with Indina attacks. |
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| Uprising in Carolina provoked by the Navigation Acts. |
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| Quaker settlement in Pennsylvania |
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| Dutch land system. Gave large manorial tracts to invested members. |
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| Most famous and last governor of Dutch Newfoundland before the British takeover. |
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| Name for the alliance of the Iroquois tribes. |
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| Reaction in New York to the Glorious Revolution, against the deposed King James II. |
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| First African-American poet, First African-American woman to publish a book. Wrote Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773). |
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| first poet and first female writer in the British North American colonies to be published. Her first volume of poetry was The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, published in 1650. |
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| Major English constitutional document detailing rights the king cannot infringe upon. |
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| an unofficial but long-lasting 17th- & 18th-century British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws, meant to keep the American colonies obedient to England. |
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| First Prime Minister of Great Britain |
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| colonial government resembling feudal grants of fiefs in exchange for service. A good example is the Province of Pennsylvania, granted to William Penn. |
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