COLONIAL TERMS

MERCANTILISM

• Mercantilism is an economic
• system where you create
• and maintain wealth by
• carefully controlling trade.

HOW DID IT AFFECT COLONISTS

• Colonists and people back
• in England used this to
• build their economy.

TRIANGULAR TRADE

TRIANGULAR TRADE

• A system of trade where New Englanders made and shipped rum
• to west coast of Africa in exchange for slaves. Then the slaves
• were sent to the West Indies in exchange for molasses and
• money. Molasses was sent back to England to make
• rum. And the system began again.

HOW DID IT AFFECT COLONISTS

• It affected them by letting them get
• slaves, rum, and money. It also
• helped them have a trade route.

THE GREAT AWAKENING

THE GREAT AWAKENING

• It was a period of revivalism in the 1730s-1740s.
• It deemphasized the importance of church and doctrine
• but helped put more importance on the individual
• and spiritual experience.

HOW DID IT AFFECT COLONISTS

• It affected them by helping them
• connect with their inner self and it
• revived them.

ENLIGHTENMENT

ENLIGHTENMENT

• A philosophical movement of the 18th
• century, characterized by belief in power
• human reason and by innovations in
• political, religious, and educational doctrine.

HOW DID IT AFFECT COLONISTS

• It helped people take control
• by characterizing their belief
• in human reason.

SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

• The emergence of modern
• science in early modern times.

HOW DID IT AFFECT COLONISTS

• It taught the colonists
• about modern science and
• taught them many things.