Colonial Terms
Published on Nov 19, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
MERCANTILISM
- Practice of creating and maintaining wealth carefully controlling trade.
- Fewer imports
- Good balance of trade
TRIANGULAR TRADE
- Trading networks in which goods and slaves moved among England, the American colonies, the West Indies and a West Africa.
- Several routes
- Goods were shipped to Britain.
THE GREAT AWAKENING
- A Christian movement that became widespread in the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s.
- Forgiveness for sins or face punishment forever in hell.
- Changed social and political life.
- Jonathan Edwards was one of the most important leaders.
ENLIGHTENMENT
- Movement that began in Europe in the 1700s as people began examining the natural world, society, and government.
- Thinkers studied human nature.
- Thinkers believed that there was a social contract between government and citizens
SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
- Period of great learning that began in the 1600s as people tried to learn about how the universe worked.
- Began in mathematics and astronomy.
- Changing the way people viewed human actions.
