THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE BOSTON TEA PARTY INTOLERABLE ACTS FIRST CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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Quartering Act
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Stamp Act
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Tax Act
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Sugar Act
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Quartering Act of 1765 required the colonies to house British soldiers in barracks provided by the colonies.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Quartering Act specified the conditions for the lodging of British troops in all of colonial North America.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Quartering Act stated that Great Britain would house its soldiers in American barracks and public houses. And if the soldiers outnumbered colonial housing, they would be quartered in inns, alehouses, barns, other buildings, etc.
Detailed explanation-4: -Reaction to the Quartering Act The 1774 Quartering Act was disliked by the colonists, as it was clearly an infringement upon local authority. Yet opposition to the Quartering Act was mainly a part of opposition to the Intolerable Acts. The Quartering Act on its own did not provoke any substantial acts of resistance.
Detailed explanation-5: -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.