COLONIAL TERMS

MERCANTILISM

• Definition: Staying wealthy by controlling trade
• Affects:
• --England became very wealthy because of the heavy taxes on colonists
• -Traders had a decent profit due to the mark-ups they would implicate when selling their trade
• -Colonists would have very little or no profit due to the taxes and Mark-ups

TRIANGULAR TRADE

• Definition: a trading system where a country pays for imports from one place, and sells it's exports to another.
• Colonies would send Cotton, lumber, metal ore, and tobacco to England
• England would then send cloth and iron to Africa.
• They would then send things like clothing, weapons, and furniture to the colonies.
• Africa would send goods to England, and slaves to the West Indies, or Colonies.

THE GREAT AWAKENING

• Definition: 15 year period of spiritual growth in the Colonies
• Settlers decided to change the way they worshiped.
• Widespread all over other religions, not just one.
• People were more emotional during prayer.

ENLIGHTENMENT

• Definition: a period of time when people believed science and logic was more important than religion.
• Gave people a better understanding of the world
• Came up with scientific reasonings for things that, up until then, went unexplained.
• Brought out of a religion-centered way of life
• Paved the way to the industrial era

SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

• Definition: the beginning of modern science
• Goes hand-in-hand with enlightenment
• Questioned 'old science' came up with new theories