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How did Britain respond to the Quartering Act?
The New York Provincial Assembly refused to provide funds to cover the costs of feeding and housing these men as required by the law. In response, the British Parliament voted to suspend the Provincial Assembly until it complied with the act.
Why did Britain repeal the Quartering Act?
In the end, like the Stamp and Sugar acts, the Quartering Act was repealed, in 1770, when Parliament realized that the costs of enforcing it far outweighed the benefits.
How did the loyalists feel about the Quartering Act?
1765 This act required colonists to quarter (provide shelter and supplies) to British soldiers. Loyalists supported this act since the British soldiers were there to protect the colonies. However, many colonist did not support the Quartering Act and refused to house the soldiers.
Why did England pass the coercive act?
The Coercive Acts of 1774, known as the Intolerable Acts in the American colonies, were a series of four laws passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party. The four acts were the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act.
Why was the Quartering Act so bad?
The quartering act is wrong because it forces people to pay for a standing army that they didn’t want there to begin with. The Quartering Act in the English colonies forced colonists to house a standing army that was there to keep the colonists from revolting.
Why do you think England passed the puartering Act?
The Quartering Act was passed primarily in response to greatly increased empire defense costs in America following the French and Indian War and Pontiac’s War. Like the Stamp Act of the same year, it also was an assertion of British authority over the colonies, in disregard of the fact that troop financing had been exercised for 150 years by representative provincial assemblies rather than by the Parliament in London.
What caused the Quartering Act?
After the French and Indian War, Great Britain wanted its colonies in America to bear the expenses of sustaining its army, which is why it passed the Quartering Acts.