SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
COLONIES OF FRANCE ENGLAND
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The colonists thought the act was unfair because it required colonists to give a quarter of their income to the king.
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The colonists though the act was unfair because they had to spend money to take care of British troops.
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The colonists felt the act was fair because it housed troops there to protect them.
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The colonists thought the act was unfair because it allowed Great Britain to pass any law they saw fit for the colonies.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Colonists resented the Quartering Act as unjust taxation, as it required colonial legislatures to pay to house the troops. References to the Quartering Act appear in the Declaration of Independence and in the U.S. Constitution.
Detailed explanation-2: -This new act allowed royal governors, rather than colonial legislatures, to find homes and buildings to quarter or house British soldiers. This only further enraged the colonists by having what appeared to be foreign soldiers boarded in American cities and taking away their authority to keep the soldiers distant.
Detailed explanation-3: -This law was expanded in 1766 and required the assemblies to billet soldiers in taverns and unoccupied houses. British motivations for enforcing the Quartering Act were mixed. Some officials were legitimately concerned about protecting the colonies from attack and viewed this law as a logical means to do so.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Quartering Act of 1765 required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies. If the barracks were too small to house all the soldiers, then localities were to accommodate the soldiers in local inns, livery stables, ale houses, victualling houses and the houses of sellers of wine.