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	The American Revolution - The Making of America and Her Independence
		New York became the focus of American resistance to the Quartering Act since, as headquarters for the British military in the Colonies, it was greatly affected by the Act.
		In Boston, the presence of British troops acted as a nettle to the radial politicians in that city.
		The Quebec Act was used as a mechanism to reaffirm the Crowns control within the Proclamation lands.
	www.americanrevolution.com /his_events_over.html (1961 words)

	Quartering Act - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Quartering Act is the name of at least two Acts of the Parliament of Great Britain.
		The second Quartering Act, established June 2, 1777, was one of the measures that comprised the Coercive acts (alternately known as the Punatory acts or Intolerable Acts), that were designed to secure the Britain's jurisdiction over her Thirteen colonies
		Both Acts led directly to the Third Amendment to the United States Constitution, which expressly prohibited the military from quartering troops without consent of the owner of the house.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quartering_Act (186 words)

	ACT Angola Digital Photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		ACT is working in several areas to provide assistance -- from blankets to vocational training -- to these families, who face dramatic needs in the weeks and months ahead.
		ACT is working with tens of thousands of families like this to help them get their lives restarted after Angola's long civil war.
		ACT is helping them and their families survive and prepare for a new future.
	www.gbgm-umc.org /honduras/Photos/angola/index1.html (2066 words)

	American Revolution
		Act of the British Parliament that vested the government of Quebec in a governor and council and preserved the French Civil Code and the Roman Catholic Church.
		The act was thus a major cause of the American Revolution and provoked an invasion of Quebec by the armies of the revolting colonies in the winter of 1775-76.
		The act was particularly resented in New York, where the largest number of reserves were quartered, and outward defiance led directly to the Suspending Act as part of the Townshend legislation of 1767.
	www.harlingen.isd.tenet.edu /coakhist/amrev.html (7027 words)

	Revolutionary War Time Line
		The Stamp Act Congress passed a "Declaration of Rights and Grievances," which claimed that American colonists were equal to all other British citizens, protested taxation without representation, and stated that, without colonial representation in Parliament, Parliament could not tax colonists.
		Although some in Parliament thought the army should be used to enforce the Stamp Act (1765), others commended the colonists for resisting a tax passed by a legislative body in which they were not represented.
		The act was repealed, and the colonies abandoned their ban on imported British goods.
	www.utulsa.edu /law/classes/rice/Constitutional/Time_Line.htm (4354 words)

	APX: The Supreme Court and Legislation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Furthermore, the Declaratory Act stated that the colonists were unlawful in stating that the colonial assemblies alone had the authority to pass legislation and impose taxes on the colonies.
		This act sets the exact wording for the Oath that, as stated in the sixth article of the constitution, must be taken by all members of the governing body of the United States.
		Frederick Douglass, an opponent of the act, warned that the act was "an open invitation to a fierce and bitter strife".
	www.tjhsst.edu /~sgoswami/legislation.htm (12140 words)

	The Stamp Act and the Quartering Act - American Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Under the Stamp Act, all printed materials and commercial documents as well as printed material including, newspapers, pamphlets, bills, legal documents, licenses, almanacs, dice and playing cards, were taxed and had to carry a special stamp.
		The colonist strongly protested and resisted, the Stamp Act and it was repealed on March 18, 1766.
		The Quartering Act was passed in June 2, 1765, against the wishes of the colonist.
	www.usfca.edu /fac_staff/conwell/revolution/stamp.htm (257 words)

	The Tea Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An act is a law being passed by the King to tax or burden the colonists.
		Woolen Act: The woolen act was enacted in 1699.
		Quartering Act: British soldiers were sent to the colonists homes to live there until the money was paid for all of the tea that was dumped into the harbor.
	ww2.avery.k12.nc.us /ams/8th/AdvClass/Kasey/KaylaCL.htm (409 words)

	History of Nova Scotia; Book.2; Part 2; Ch. 9. The Intolerable Acts (1774)"
		The quartering of troops in Boston or any other town of the colony was legalized and a new delimitation of the Canadian frontier was determined.
		5 The act provided that councilors6 should be chosen by the Crown and hold office "for and during the pleasure of his Majesty." More dreadful was the provision that all judges and the courts were to be under the control of the governor, viz., they could be hired and fired as he saw fit.
		We might add, by the way, this quartering proved no problem for the colonists located in the newly settled and scattered communities, indeed their assistance and protection was welcomed; but, in the old established centres this quartering was regard as a menace and a burden.
	www.blupete.com /Hist/NovaScotiaBk2/Part2/Ch09.htm (2132 words)

	Intolerable or Coercive Acts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		(Established June 2, 1774, the Qartering Act of 1774 was similar in substance to the Quartering Act of 1765.
		AN ACT for or the impartial administration of justice in the cases of persons questioned for any acts done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults, in the province of the Massachuset's Bay, in New England.
		AN ACT to discontinue, in such manner, and for or such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping, of goods, wares, and merchandise, at the town, and within the harbour, of Boston, in the province of Massachuset's Bay, in North America.
	shs.westport.k12.ct.us /jwb/AP/TLdocs/IntolActs.htm (995 words)

	American Revolution, 1765-1766 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Stamp Act Congress: New York City convention, with representatives from nine of the colonies, prepares a resolution requesting the repeal of the Revenue Acts of 1764 and the Stamp Act.
		Quartering Act: British General Thomas Gage, commander of all English military forces in America, asks the New York assembly to make colonists house and supply his troops.
		Stamp Act repealed: King George III signs a bill repealing the Stamp Act after much debate in the English Parliament, which included an appearance by Ben Franklin arguing for repeal and warning of a possible revolution in the American colonies if the Stamp Act was enforced by the British military.
	carbon.cudenver.edu /~rpekarek/AmRev1765.html (425 words)

	Boston Tea Party - Historical Society
		The Stamp Act Congress passed a "Declaration of Rights and Grievances," which claimed that American colonists were equal to all other British citizens, protested taxation without representation, and stated that, without colonial representation in Parliament, Parliament could not tax colonists.
		Although some in Parliament thought the army should be used to enforce the Stamp Act (1765), others commended the colonists for resisting a tax passed by a legislative body in which they were not represented.
		The act was repealed, and the colonies abandoned their ban on imported British goods.
	www.boston-tea-party.org /timeline.html (1727 words)

	Quartering Act (1765)
		During the Stamp Act unrest of 1765 and early 1766, increasing numbers of soldiers were stationed in or near American cities.
		Resistance to the Quartering Act was strongest in New York.
		The Quartering Act was amended in 1774, when it would again ignite the fears of many Americans.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h641.html (701 words)

	Quartering - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For quartering as a punishment see Hanged, drawn and quartered.
		For quartering of shields in heraldry see Quartering (heraldry).
		The Quartering Acts required American civilians to provide quarters for British soldiers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quartering (108 words)

	Intolerable Acts
		Boston Port Act, which closed the port of Boston until the price of the dumped tea was recovered, moved the capital of Massachusetts to Salem, and made Marblehead the official port of entry for the Massachusetts colony.
		These Acts were the harshest so far of all the Acts passed by Parliament.
		And the Quebec Act was a direct insult to Americans, who had been denied the same sorts of rights that the Quebec residents now got.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /wwww/us/intolerableactsdef.htm (343 words)

	SparkNotes: Pre-Revolutionary America (1763-1776): Further Impositions: The Quartering Act and the Townshend Duties
		In August 1766, months after the repeal of the Stamp Act, King George III dismissed the Rockingham government and chose William Pitt as the new prime minister.
		Even the Sugar Act had received only limited opposition due to its tax measures, compared to more serious complaints about impractical restrictions and the denial of a fair trial for offenders.
		Townshend claimed that the Revenue Act was intended to help solve the government's budgetary problems, but there were additional ulterior motives for his support of the act.
	www.sparknotes.com /history/american/prerevolution/section7.rhtml (1150 words)

	Edward Montague and the American Revolution
		Virginia was living beyond its means, and the planters were expecting the British merchants to subsidize their standard of living by accepting repayment of debts in depreciated currency that had been declared legal tender by the Virginia Assembly, many of whose members were themselves debtor planters.
		The agents were informed that Parliament would act if the Assembly did not mend its ways, and that this would mean the abolition of all the existing legal-tender currency in Virginia.
		Garth was acting in concert with Edward Montagu, and hoped to organize resistance to the measure with `gentleman connected with America'.
	www.montaguemillennium.com /familyresearch/am_rev.htm (3330 words)

	The History Place - Prelude to Revolution
		This act threatens to destabilize the entire colonial economy of both the industrial North and agricultural South, thus uniting the colonists against it.
		The petition requests the repeal of the Stamp Act and the Acts of 1764.
		The violence erupts as a result of the continuing refusal of New York colonists to comply with the Quartering Act.
	www.historyplace.com /unitedstates/revolution/rev-prel.htm (2564 words)

	The American Revolution
		Threatened by the alliance between France and America, Parliament proposed the repeal of the Tea Act (1773) and Coercive Acts (1774), pledged not to tax the colonies, and sent peace commissioners to America.
		But when British Major John André, acting as messenger, was captured, Arnold fled to a British ship, revealing his involvement in the treasonous plan.
		André was executed as a spy, and Arnold was made a brigadier general in the British army.
	theamericanrevolution.org /tline.asp (3447 words)

	The Coercive Acts 1774 (the "Intolerable Acts")
		This was an amendment to the 1765 Quartering and Mutiny Act which broadened the law.
		The Act allowed for the quartering of these men in empty houses, inns and barns but also in private houses if necessary.
		The soldiers were also to be supplied with fire, candles, vinegar, salt, bedding, cooking utensils, up to five pints of small beer or cider or half a pint of rum mixed with two pints of water per man. The colonists were to meet the expense of this for themselves.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /town/terrace/adw03/c-eight/america/coercive.htm (515 words)

	Quartering Act
		[Military officers taking upon themselves to quarter soldiers contrary to this act, or using any menace to a civil officer to deter him from his duty, to be cashiered.
		Provided always, That in case any innholder, or other person, on whom any noncommission officers or private men shall be quartered by virtue of this act,.
		billeted or quartered on him or her, shall refuse to receive or victual any such officer or soldier.
	www.multied.com /documents/QuarteringAct.html (477 words)

	DiaryChannel.com
		This act prohibited American colonies from issuing their own currency, angering many American colonists.
		The Declaratory Act, passed by Parliament on the same day the Stamp Act was repealed, stated that Parliament could make laws binding the American colonies "in all cases whatsoever." Resistance to the Quartering Act in New York.
		"Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies." Originally published in a newspaper, this widely reproduced pamphlet by John Dickinson declared that Parliament could not tax the colonies, called the Townshend Acts unconstitutional, and denounced the suspension of the New York Assembly as a threat to colonial liberties.
	diarychannel.com /Diary.aspx?ID=44 (1712 words)

	Josh Criddlebaugh's Research Paper (1998)
		The Townshend Acts were the next taxes to be levied on the colonists.
		These Acts said that no ship could enter or leave the Boston Harbor until the tea was paid for.
		The Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Declaratory Act, Townshend Act, Quartering Act, Tea Act, the Boston Tea Party, and the Coercive Acts were all part of a giant "snowball" rolling downhill that started the American Revolutionary War.
	www.davis.k12.ut.us /ffjh/Thompson/Jcriddle.htm (1287 words)

	HistoryWiz: The Quartering Act - The Intolerable Acts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		HistoryWiz: The Quartering Act - The Intolerable Acts
		[Military officers taking upon themselves to quarter soldiers contrary to this act, or using any menace to a civil officer to deter them from their duty, to be cashiered.
		Provided always, That in case any innholder, or other person, on whom any non commission officers or private men shall be quartered by virtue of this act,...
	www.historywiz.com /primarysources/quarteringact.htm (247 words)

	America: 1763-1776
		The act mandated that many commodities shipped from the colonies had to pass through Britain before going to other European countries.
		The Stamp Act was the first internal tax ever imposed on the colonies by Parliament and aroused great opposition.
		The Quartering Act became controversial during 1766, when New York refuses to comply with it.
	www.sparknotes.com /history/american/prerevolution/htimeline.html (745 words)

	The Intolerable Acts
		They expanded the Quartering Act requiring British troops to be housed in private homes.
		Lastly, to prevent the colonies from growing bigger and stronger, they passed the Quebec Act which extended the Canadian border southward to the Ohio River eliminating the colonies claim to the land.
		These acts were intended to make an example of the people of Massachusetts for their disobedience.
	www.kidport.com /RefLib/UsaHistory/AmericanRevolution/IntolerableActs.htm (225 words)

	Intolerable Acts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Intolerable Acts were a threat to liberty and all the colonies.
		The third act was the Administration of Justice Act.
		The fourth act was the Massachusetts Government Act.
	www.alexandriacentral.org /cove/intolerable.html (181 words)

	The Avalon Project : Great Britain : Parliament - The Quartering Act; June 2, 1774
		The Avalon Project : Great Britain : Parliament - The Quartering Act; June 2, 1774
		An act for the better providing suitable quarters for officers and soldiers in his Majesty’s service in North America.
		And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this act, and every thing herein contained, shall continue and be in force, in all his Majesty’s dominions in North America, until the twenty-fourth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/amerrev/parliament/quartering_act_1774.htm (88 words)

	Stamp Act
		American colonists were enraged by the Sugar Act because they did not think they should be taxed in the same way British residents were.
		On March 24th, Parliament passed the Quartering Act which required Americans to provide housing and provisions to British soldiers.
		When the Stamp Act was to be officially implemented, on November 1, 1765, all stamp agents sent over from England had been intimidated into resigning their posts.
	www.mrnussbaum.com /history/stampact.htm (360 words)

	Time Line of the Constitution Part I 1764-1775
		The Declaratory Act, passed by Parliament on the same day the Stamp Act was repealed, stated that
		quartering troops, a skirmish occurred in which one colonist was wounded.
		Townshend Acts, which initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea.
	www.charlottenet.org /revolutionarywar/timeline1764-75.htm (1500 words)

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