MTTES

MERCANTILISM

• The practice of creating and maintaining wealth by carefully controlling trade
• Nations like England were affected by trying to control what goods were traded to and from their colonies
• Some of the important products that were traded were timber, fur, tobacco, machines, hardware, furniture

TRIANGULAR TRADE

• Trading networks in which goods and slaves moved among England, the American colonies, the West Indies and West Africa
• Colonists could sell fish, grain, beef, and horses in many routes
• This type of trade was an early form of free enterprise

THE gREAT AWAKENING

• A Christian movement that became widespread in the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s.
• This affected colonists all over the United States by spreading the preachings of Christianity

ENLIGHTENMENT

• The movement that began in Europe in the 1700s as people began examining the natural world, society, and government
• This affected the colonists by reforming the society with reason, which means have ideas of tradition and type of faith
• In this case, Christianity as the faith

SCIENTIFIC REVOLTION

• The period of great learning that began in the 1600s as European scientists, mathematicians, and astronomers looked for explanations about how the universe worked.
• This affected the colonists by making them want to learn more about the science of things or what is beyond this world(space studies)
• Leading figures such Galileo and Newton led this revolution what with Galileo with space studies and Newton with force

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