COLONY TERMS

MERCANTILISM

• A controlled trade to make money
• The colonists had a set price to sell their product, but always had a buyer

TRIANGULAR TRADE

• A trade with England, West Africa, the Colonies, and the West Indies to get more materials
• The colonists had a broader range of materials that could get

THE gREAT AWAKENING

• A group of people who realized they should focus on religion and wanted equality
• People started to join religions and started to think everyone should be equal

ENLIGHTENMENT

• They started to use reason and logic and applied to other topics
• Colonists started to change how they thought of topics and how their government was run

SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION

• A breakthrough of science and math/ many discoveries were made
• Because many discoveries were mad, it changed how things were in the colonies