Colonial Vocabulary

MERCANTILISM

• Most western European countries practiced this
• England did
• It is the practice of creating and maintaining wealth by controlling trade

Triangular Trade

• several different routes
• fish, grain, beef and horses to plantation owners in the West Indies
• ^in exchange, they got sugar and molasses
• goods and slaves went among the colonies, England, West Indies and West Africa

The Great Awakening

• colonists were losing faith
• early 1700's (1730's and 1740's)
• revivals- emotional gatherings
• Christian movement

Enlightenment

• Age of Reason
• 1700s movement
• People began examining the natural world, society and government

Scientific Revolution

• 1600s
• periods of great learning
• European scientists, mathematicians and astronomers
• Explanations for how the universe worked