The Atlantic slave trade or trans-atlantic slave trade took place across the Atlantic ocean from the 16th through to the 19th centuries. Most of the of slaves transported to the New World were Africans from the central and western parts of the continent.  The numbers were so great that Africans who came by way of the slave trade became the most numerous old-world immigrants in both North and South America. The first Africans imported to the English colonies were also called “indentured servants”.  They were merchandise or units of labor, and were sold at markets with other goods and services.



 

The French and Indian war is also known as the 7 year war. The war was fought primarily between the colonies of British America and New France, with both sides supported by military units from their parent countries of Great Britain and France.The name refers to the two main enemies of the British colonists: the royal French forces and the various Native American forces allied with them. But thr name that most historian perfer to call the war is "Anglo-French rivalry", because it wasnt just the French and Indian it was Britian as well. The war was fought along the frontiers separating New France from the British colonies from Virginia to Nova Scotia. 

 

The Great Awakening

 

-The First Great Awakening began in the 1720s and lasted to about 1750. Ministers from various evangelical Protestant denominations supported the Great Awakening. one of the preachers being Jonathan Edwards, one of the major preachers. Causeing pastoral styles to change.

-The Second Great Awakening was a religious revival that occurred in the United States beginning in the late eighteenth century and lasted until the middle of the nineteenth century. The second great awakening was strong in the north and midwest,also noteworthy to point out that this awakening was unique in that it moved beyond the educated elite of New England to those that were less wealthy and less educated.