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    HIS 121 Study Guide #1 The American Promise: A Compact History The first exam will cover chapters 1-4. The exam will consist of 33 multiple choice questions and three short answer paragraphs. Please know the following: Historians/Archeologists: Historians direct their attention to mostly writing (personal and private jottings‚ letters‚ diary entries‚ public documents: laws‚ court cases‚ newspapers‚ speeches)‚ arachaelogist tend to focus on physical objects (bines spear points‚ pots‚

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    was a term used by the Puritans to describe both their beliefs and their society. It emphasized duty‚ godliness‚ hard work‚ honesty‚ and education. D. The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut was written by Thomas Hooker and his congregation in 1636. It extended voting rights to non-church members and limited the power of the governor. E. The three groups that had to create new settlements were the Pilgrims‚ the Puritans‚ and the Quakers. They had to move because

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    settlers toward Native Americans in areas such as New France. All this would establish a part of what would be the American identity. When the English king‚ Charles II gave William Penn‚ a Quaker‚ a grant of land‚ William Penn set out to establishhis colony as a heaven which embraced his religious beliefs. Quakers believed that the Holy Spirit inspired all human beings‚ and thus‚ God did not make distinctions of race‚ gender‚ ethnicity or social class. Therefore‚ all human beings were equal. William

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    important factor when establishing these policies‚ Religions guides people in all regards‚ especially in how to relate with other groups. In the case of the Puritans and Pilgrims in Massachusetts and Virginia‚ there could be no frame left to live in equality terms with Native Americans. Contrasting sharply with Penn’s religious beliefs the Puritans believed that only a few were to be saved. Therefore‚ under these beliefs they established their policy toward Native Americans. In Virginia‚ the landowners

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    Name ____________________ APUSH (Unit 1‚ #4) Date _____________ Pd ____ 17th Century English Colonies: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society I. Colonial Society in the 17th Century A. New England 1. NE was more stable than other colonies due to families‚ access to marriage‚ longer life expectancy 2. Education was valued in NE: led to high literacy rate & Harvard (1638) 3. “Golden Age” for NE women? Important contributions but

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    Reformation‚ a few religious groups from England fled to the New World in search of religious freedom. The separating Puritans‚ also known as Pilgrims‚ were the first to come for purely religious reasons. Fed up with the Catholicized ways of the Church of England‚ they settled in Plymouth hoping to start their own‚ separate‚ purified church. Later‚ a group of non-separatist Puritans followed suit and came to the New World also because of religion. Founding the Massachusetts Bay Colony‚ they hoped to

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    founded byt the Separatist Puritans who wanted to begin their own Church without the interference of the British government. They believed in predestination‚ in which a soul is born destined for hell or heaven. Once a person shows signs of conversion‚ in which the person is shown that he/she will go to heaven‚ they are "visible saints". Puritans agree that only visible saints should have Church membership but in England everyone could have Church membership so the Puritans came to the Americas to set

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    path to salvation‚ although they were involved in sinful acts. While Calvinists‚ also known as Puritans‚ solely believed in God’s grace. They believed that certain people‚ also known as the elect‚ had been chosen to enter Heaven‚ since before birth. Although some Calvinists did accept the Church of England‚ they still wanted to purify it from its corruption‚ these Calvinists were known a Puritans. The Puritans also denied the right of the Supreme Head of Church to be the King‚ they expected it to be

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    Chapter 3 Review Sheet Pilgrims- is a traveler who is on a journey to a holy place. Separatists- is the advocacy of a state of cultural‚ ethnic‚ tribal‚ religious‚ racial‚ governmental or gender separation from the larger group. Puritans- were a community of English Protestants active during the 16th and 17th centuries. Mayflower Compact- was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. Squanto- was a Patuxet. He was the Native American who assisted the Pilgrims after their first

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    appearance in the New England Magazine for April 1835 and was collected in Mosses from an Old Manse in 1846. The story is set in the Puritan New England‚ a common setting for Hawthorne’s works‚ and like most of the stories in Mosses‚ “Young Goodman Brown” examines Hawthorne’s favorite themes: the loss of religious faith‚ presence of temptation‚ and social ills of Puritan communities. These themes‚ along with the story’s dark‚ surreal ending‚ make “Young Goodman Brown” one of the Hawthorne’s most popular

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