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Chapter 3 Notes
Chapter 3 Notes
15th Edition
Chapter 3 notes
Settling the Northern
Colonies
I. The Protestant Reformation Produces Puritanism
1. Martin Luther nailed his protests against Catholicism on the Wittenberg
Cathedral in 1517.
o Said that the bible only was God’s word and started Protestant
Reformation.
2. John Calvin of Geneva believed in the Reformation so much he had ideas that
affected America’s future generations.
3. Calvinism was the main religion for New England.
o Calvin wrote institutes of the Christian Religion (1536). It said God was
good, powerful and already predestines who was going to heaven (the elect)
and hell before they were born and said that humans were weak and evil.
4. Those who were sure to go had signs of conversion where god told them they were
of the elect and were then expected to live the life of a visible saint.
o Calvinism swept through England in the 1530’s where King Henry the 8th
broke the Roman Catholic Church.
5. The Puritans wanted to completely de-catholicize the church.
o Devout Puritans thought that only visible saints belonged in the church but
the king let everyone in.
o This mix angered a group called the separatists who broke away from
the church of England.
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