USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -Parliament’s first direct tax on the American colonies, this act, like those passed in 1764, was enacted to raise money for Britain. It taxed newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, dice, and playing cards.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Quartering Act applied to all of the colonies, and sought to create a more effective method of housing British troops in America. In a previous act, the colonies had been required to provide housing for soldiers, but colonial legislatures had been uncooperative in doing so.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The colonists felt that the Quartering Act of 1765 violated the 1689 English Bill of Rights. In 1766 1, 500 British soldiers sailed in New York Harbor. The New York Colonial Assembly disliked being ordered to house and feed the British and refused to do so. The British soldiers had to remain on their ships.