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Quartering Act
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Colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel, and transportation to British forces stationed in their towns or villages.
Was passed in response to the costs of the defense in America following the French and Indian War and Pontiac’s War.
British military found difficult to persuade some colonies to pay for the costs of housing and provisioning the soldiers sent over to fight the French.
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When the war ended, the king’s advisors decided that some British troops should remain in North America, in theory to defend the colonies.
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