Question

what is the meaning of each of the following terms

U.s History First Test Review (Class lectures and Chapters 1, 2, 3 in textbook)

Please don't answer my quetion if you don't provide the meaning to each , thanks !

Manumission                predestination

Restoration (1660)                Indulgences

Enclosure Movement            congregationalism

Quakers                    encomienda

Baptists                    covenant

Mercantilism                spectral evidence

Columbian exchange            praying Indians

Answer 1

1. Manumission is defined as the act of an owner freeing his or her slaves.

2. Predestination is the doctrine that all events have been willed by God, usually with reference to the eventual fate of the individual soul.

3. Indulgence is the behavior of people who allow themselves to do what they want or who allow other people to do what they want.

4. Congregationalism is a christian movement that arose in England in the late 16th and 17th centuries. It occupies a theological position somewhere between Presbyterianism and the more radical Protestantism of the Baptists and Quakers.

5. Encomienda was a labor system in Spain and its empire.

6. Spectral evidence is a form of evidence based upon dreams and visions. It was admitted into court during the Salem witch trials by the appointed chief justice, William Stoughton.

7. Praying Indian is a 17th-century term referring to Native Americans of New England, New York, Ontario, and Quebec who converted to Christianity.