Period 3 Vocab Review Game

Protestant Scottish settlers who migrated from British-controlled northern Ireland to the American colonies in the 1700s.

17th century philosophical movement in Europe that emphasized reason and individualism rather than tradition and faith.

Imperial war between Britain and France for control of North America (beginning in 1754) that became a larger-scale European war in 1756. American Indians generally supported the French

Ended the French and Indian War, Britain gained possession of all of French Canada and Spanish Florida.

Unsuccessful Indian rebellion led by an Ottawa chief named Pontiac against British Indian policy in the Northwest Territory.

Britain established a boundary in the Appalachian Mountains, banning colonists from settling west of the boundary. Designed to prevent conflict with Indians.

Frontiersman of Scots-Irish origin in Paxton, Pennsylvania , who massacred Conestoga Indians and then marched on Philadelphia demanding the colonial government provide better defense against Indians. The government responded with an official bounty for Indian scalps.

British law that taxed sugar and other colonial imports to pay for some of Britain's expenses in protecting the colonies during the French and Indian War.

British law that established a direct tax in the colonies on written documents, including newspapers, legal documents, and playing cards. The tax was designed to raise revenue for the British empire. Protests against the Stamp Act led to its repeal in 1766.

Secret organization formed in Boston in 1765 to oppose the Stamp Act. Best known for the Boston Tea Party in 1773.

The British Parliament asserted they had "the sole and exclusive right" to tax the colonists, rejecting the colonial argument that taxation should rest in the hands of colonial assemblies.

Import taxes for the colonists on products made in Britain. Recognizing the colonists had been pushed too far, Parliament repealed the Townshend Acts in 1770, except for the tax on tea.

British troops killed five colonists by firing on a mob of people who had been taunting them and throwing stones.

As a protest against a British monopoly on tea, colonists disguised as Mohawk Indians boarded three British ships and dumped a shipments of tea into Boston harbor.

Delegates from every colony except Georgia met in Philadelphia and asserted their rights as Englishmen.