History of the United States I / Unit 5 USH1 0615 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Quartering Act
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The idea
The Quartering Act of seventeen sixty-five required that soldiers be provided with barracks or places to stay, and if necessary be stationed in barns and uninhabited buildings.
In practice
Colonists bearing the cost of food and lodging.
Where people slip
New York's Assembly refused when fifteen hundred troops arrived in seventeen sixty-six, given historical distrust of standing armies in peacetime.
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