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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
06/06/1754	French and Indian War	The French and Indian War is the common American name for the war between Great Britain and France in North America from 1754 to 1763.
10/31/1763	Proclamation of 1763	The proclamation, in effect, closed off the frontier to colonial expansion. The King and his council presented the proclamation as a measure to calm the fears of the Indians, who felt that the colonists would drive them from their lands as they expanded westward
03/22/1765	Stamp Act	The Stamp Act was a tax that was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used.
10/31/1765	Quartering Act	The Quartering Act is the name of at least two 18th-century acts of the Parliament of Great Britain. These Quartering Acts ordered the local governments of the American colonies to provide housing and provisions for British soldiers.
10/31/1767	Townshend Acts	Series of 1767 laws named for Charles Townshend, British Chancellor of the Exchequer (Treasurer). These laws placed new taxes on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea
03/05/1770	Boston Massacre	The Boston Massacre was the killing of five colonists by British soldiers on March 5, 1770. It happened in front of the Boston Customs House.
05/10/1773	Tea Act	The Tea Act was designed to prop up the East India Company which was floundering financially and burdened with eighteen million pounds of unsold tea. This tea was to be shipped directly to the colonies, and sold at a bargain price
12/16/1773	Boston Tea Party	The Boston Tea Party took place on December 16, 1773, when colonists threw tea into the Boston Harbor
09/10/1774	First Continental Congress	The first Continental Congress met in Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia, from September 5, to October 26, 1774
10/31/1774	Intolerable Acts	The Intolerable Acts or the Coercive Acts are names used to describe a series of laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774 relating to Britain's colonies in North America. The acts triggered outrage and resistance in the Thirteen Colonies that later became the United States, and were important developments in the growth of the American Revolution.