Puritans followed the religious ideas of the French-born theologian: John Calvin
The Mayflower Compact established: a civil government based upon a majoritarian model and to proclaim the settlers' allegiance to the king.
Tobacco production in Virginia: Enriched an emerging class of planters and certain members of the colonial government.
To entice settlers to Virginia, the Virginia Company established the headright system, which: grant land to current and prospective settlers
The Virginia House of Burgesses: the first elected assembly of representatives of English colonists in North America.
Maryland was similar to Virginia in that: both started out as proprietary colonies
In the 1640s, leaders of the House of Commons: accused the king of imposing taxes without parliamentary consent.
In regard to religious toleration, the Puritans: believed their faith was the truth
How did John Winthrop view a woman’s liberty? Once a woman married a man, she was his subject.
The Magna Carta: applied to noblemen and barrons
A central element in the definition of English liberty was: trial by jury
In the seventeenth century, New England’s economy: subsistence farming mixed with fishing and timber harvesting markets in Europe and the West Indies.
Roger Williams argued that: religion and government must be divided
Most seventeenth-century migrants to North America from England: laborers or lower-class men
Anne Hutchinson: Puritan leaders felt Hutchinson's opinions were full of religious errors and women did not have the right to explain God's law.
Puritans viewed individual and personal freedom as: dangerous to both the individual and community
Maryland was established as a refuge for which group? Catholics
How did most Puritans view the separation of church and state? They allowed church and state to be interconnected by requiring each town to establish a church and levy a tax to support the minister.
In contrast to life in the Chesapeake region, life in New England: centered around the family or community
The Half-Way Covenant of 1662: allowed partial membership rights to persons not yet converted into the Puritan church