COLONIAL TERMS

MERCANTILISM

• Economic system that controlled trade so that the government maintained wealth.
• Colonists had a set price to sell things and did not make much money in the end.
• Traders made a little bit of money in the end.
• Businesses in England would make a good amount of money.
• The king and government would receive the biggest share of money through trade.

TRIANGULAR TRADE

• A network where slaves and goods were traded between the American Colonies, West Indies, and West Africa.
• Colonies sold raw materials to West Indies in return for sugar, molasses, and slaves.
• Rum was transported to Africa in return of gold and slaves.
• Africa transported slaves to West Indies.

THE GREAT AWAKENING

• A Christian movement that emphasized the faith in god.
• Used emotions to scare people into believing the faith of god was the way.
• If you didn't follow the way the priest talked about, you were said to be destined to go to the underworld.
• Jonathan Edwards's 1741 sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God called up frightening images.
• God . . holds you over the pit of hell,much as one holds a spider,or some loathsome insect over the fire."

ENLIGHTENMENT

• A movement that stressed the belief that science and logic give people more knowledge .
• In the 18th century showed that religion and tradition shouldn't be a part of making political decisions.
• Caused production of many books, essays, inventions, scientific discoveries, laws, and revolutions.
• The divine right of kings began to be questioned, as for kings weren't born with power from God.
• Thinkers discussed the founding principles of any democracy-the idea of equality under the law of natural rights.

SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

• Scientists began to re-examine their world.
• More experiments were performed, which helped understand the basic laws that govern nature.
• The revolution began in mathematics and astronomy, but later changed all areas of natural science.
• Galileo Galilei demonstrated how planets revolve around the sun.
• Sir Isaac Newton explained how objects on Earth and in the sky behaved.