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The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution
Cause: The author, Roger Williams wanted to speak out on his beliefs of forced religion.
Effect: It became a popular book after the English civil war and King Charles 2 ordered a stop to religous persecution in Massachusetts. -
Half-Way Covenant
Cause: Conflicts had arose when Puritanism became an established church and there was a requirement of conversion.
Effect: Children who hadn't experienced conversioln could join as half way members and were onlly left out of communion. -
Sovreignty and Goodness of God
Cause: Mary Rowlandson wanted to tell of her captivity by the Indians during King Phillip's War.
Effect: Opened the way for a number more of "captivity narratives" in the colonial community. -
Letter on Tolerance
Cause: John Locke wanted to spread his belief that churches should be voluntary societies.
Effect: The Toleration Act of 1689 later enforced his beliefs. -
Enlightenment
Cause: Intellectuals began to believe that men and womenhad the rights to life, liberty, and property and that the universe was governed by rational laws.
Effect: Caused a huge decline in relion and more colleges began to be establishe in North America. -
French Crescent
Cause:Catholicss went to a certain regionin New France.
Effect: The french population rose from 15,000 to 70,000 from 1700 to mid century. -
Iroquois five nations
Cause: They did not want to be involved with future conflicts and wanted to be kept out of harms way.
Effect:They signed a neutrality treaty with France even though they had fought against them in King William's War. -
Saybrook Platform
Cause: tensions between congrgational autonomy and central control that came with establishment of church.
Effect: gave governance by councils of ministers and elders rather than by congregations, which weakened passion of church members. -
The Great Awakening
Cause: Reverand Johnathon Edward challanged ratioinalism and gave charismatic sermons to draw people towards religion.
Effect: A great revival in religion and belief in God swept throughout North America as other reverands began more lively and convincing sermons. -
Jonathon Edwards
Cause: he wanted to revive religion after it declined during Enlightenment.
Effect: succeeded oi reviving religion og colonial North America. -
Poor Richard's Almanac
Cause: Benjamin Franklinwanted to spread the word of Enlightenment to ordinary people.
Effect: This almanac became popular for the traditional literary form in which the story was told. -
George Whitefield
Cause: a reverend who was inspired by the sermons of Jonathon Edwards and also wanted to revive religion.
Effect: attracted people to religion with his charismatic personality and strong sermons -
Log College
Cause: Willliam Tennent founded it to train like minded men of the Awakening for the ministry.
Effect: It was later transformed into Princeton, an elite upper class college. -
Junipero Serra
Cause: He was sent by Mexican order to establish missionaries inn Baja, California.
Effect: led to a colonizing expedition that resulted in many of modern California cities. -
Indian epidemics
Cause: Indians were unused to European disease and suffered a large population loss.
Effect: Indian populatioin north of Mexico went from 7-10 million in 1500 to 1 million in 1800.