APUSH: Chapter 3 Questions and Answers with complete solution

religious devotion - What attracted the original settlers to the northern colonies? Martin Luther - German friar, nailed protests against Catholic doctrines to the door of Wittenberg's cathedral in 1517, declared that the Bible alone was the source of God's word John Calvin - of Geneva, creator of Calvinism, as it became the dominant theological credo of the New England Puritans, wrote Institutes of the Christian Religion which said humans were all weak and God was all knowing, introduced predestination predestination - Calvinist doctrine that God has foreordained some people to be saved and some to be damned, even though people did not know their fate, they lived sanctified lives to show to others that they were members of the elect conversion - receipt of God's free gift of saving grace King Henry VII - broke ties with the Roman Catholic Church and became head of the Church of England Puritans - stimulated by King Henry's breaking with the Roman Catholic Church, came from commercially depressed woolen districts, relied on Calvinism which fed on the social unrest and economic disadvantage of this religious group Separatists - a group of extremely devout Puritans who were angered that they, the "visible saints" were forced to share pews with the damned in England, the most famous group were harassed out of the land by King James I who did not want to be defied politically, as these people moved into Holland Dutchification - happened to the children of the Separatists in Holland that distressed them greatlyMayflower - the ship that the Separatists sailed to New England on after securing a charter with the Virginia Company after living in Holland Captain Myles Standish - Separatist who sailed on the Mayflower, Indian fighter and negotiator Plymouth Bay - location chosen by the Pilgrims to settle, became squatters here since they had missed the land under their charter Mayflower Compact - written by the pilgrims, a simple agreement to form a crude government and to submit to the will of the majority under the regulations agreed upon 44 - How many survivors of the 102 Pilgrims were left after their first winter? Thanksgiving - in 1621, the year after the Pilgrims arrived in New England, the celebration of bountiful harvests fur, fish, lumber - three things that stimulated the early Pilgrims' economy beaver and Bible - two mainstays of the Pilgrims, one for the body and one for the soul