Massachusetts Bay Colony Vocabulary

What is a Puritan?

• (proper noun): a 17th century group of Protestants that were very strict in their religious beliefs

• (plural noun): learned people, especially academic specialists in one area of knowledge

• (noun): person employed to conduct religious services, such as a minister

Define condemned.

• (noun): an opinion that goes against accepted beliefs

• (noun): proof

• (noun): determine to be unfit or bad

Massachusetts Bay Colony

• (proper noun): an English settlement established on the east coast of North America in 1630

• (noun): a nation, state, or political unit

• (noun): small group

What are civil liberties?

• (noun): a sense of right and wrong

• (verb): go along with something; cooperate

• (noun): individual rights protected by law

Who were the Pilgrims?

• (proper noun): early settlers of North America who came for religious freedom

• (proper noun): a 17th century group of Protestants that were very strict in their religious beliefs

• (noun): a person who champions a cause or idea; supporter

What is a primary source?

• (noun): a physical object or document that was created or written by someone who saw or participated in an event

• (noun): allowance of differences of opinion and behavior

• (noun): words that are cut into a surface

Define toleration

• (noun): a public hearing about a crime before a court of law

• (noun): a sense of right and wrong

• (noun): allowance of differences of opinion and behavior

Define exile.

• (noun): the meaning of something in the way that you understand it

• (noun): a punishment in which a person is forced to leave their home and live somewhere else

• (noun): an opinion that goes against accepted beliefs