USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Quartering Act was the fourth and final of the main Coercive Acts. It was given royal assent on June 2, 1774. The only act of the four to apply to all of the colonies, it allowed high-ranking military officials to demand better accommodations for troops and to refuse inconvenient locations for quarters.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Coercive Acts (called the Intolerable Acts by the colonists) included a new Quartering Act that provided arrangements for housing British troops in American dwellings. It revived the anger that colonists had felt regarding the earlier Quartering Act (1765), which had been allowed to expire in 1770.

Detailed explanation-3: -Unlike the previous Quartering Act of 1765, the Quartering Act of 1774 allowed British troops to be housed in private homes and facilities. This Act was passed as part of the Coercive Acts in the wake of the Boston Tea Party.

Detailed explanation-4: -On June 2, 1774, the British Parliament renews the Quartering Act. The Quartering Act, in conjunction with the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act and the Boston Port Act, were known as the Coercive Acts.

Detailed explanation-5: -Passed June 2, 1774, the Quartering Act was designed to improve housing options for regular troops stationed in the colonies. It seeks to address American doubts about “whether troops can be quartered otherwise than in barracks” if barracks were already provided for them by provincial and local authorities.