History Midterm - Orta

God gold glory

belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.

relationship between the amount of product and the desire for the product

a company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders.

A practice, primarily during the 18th century, in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa.

Religious revival in the colonies in 1730s and 1740s; George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards preached a message of atonement for sins by admitting them to God. The movement attempted to combat the growing secularism and rationalism of mid-eighteenth century America. Religious splits in the colonies became deeper.

A time of philosophical movement in eighteenth century Europe that fostered the belief that one could reform society by discovering rational laws that governed social behavior and were just as scientific as the laws of physics.

The original states : Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Virginia.

Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware

New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut

1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony.

was a religious reform movement that arose within the Church of England in the late sixteenth century.

Several accusations of witchcraft led to sensational trials in Salem, Massachusetts at which Cotton Mather presided as the chief judge. 18 people were hanged as witches. Afterwards, most of the people involved admitted that the trials and executions had been a terrible mistake.

(1754-1763) War fought in the colonies between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio Valley area. The English won.