Mass Bay Colony and the Puritans Vocabulary

Roger Williams

• Puritan founder of Massachusetts

• 1st governor of Mass Bay Colony

• Puritan founder of Rhode Island

• Puritan founder of Plymouth Colony

theocracy

• system of government run by one person who has total control

• a type of religion

• an illness contracted by the Puritans

• system of government run by religious church officials

principle

• the head of a school

• a basic belief, law or truth

• a Constitution

• a form of government where the people vote for their leader

John Winthrop

• the Puritan founder of Rhode Island

• the Puritan founder of Connecticut

• the Puritan founder of Mass Bay Colony

• a Native American that helped the Puritans

migration

• movement from one country or place to another

• a Puritan religion

• a form of government with a King or Queen

• a flock of geese flying in a "V" formation

Puritans

• members of the Church of England that disagreed with the church but still wanted to remain within it and "purify" it.

• Native Americans that were polytheistic

• members of the Church of England that disagreed with the church and decided to separate from it and start their own church.

• Catholic members of the Church of England

religious tolerance

• the rejection of different religious beliefs

• the acceptance of different religious beliefs

• none of the above

evolve

• to enter into

• to develop into

• a period of time

• a religious belief

religious intolerance

• the rejection of different beliefs

• the acceptance of religious beliefs

• none of the above

Quakers

• dissenting religious group that believes in multiple gods

• religious group that follows the Church of England

• dissenting religious group that did not/does not believe in war, capital punishment, or slavery

• religious group that is Catholic