Quartering Act

Examples of Quartering Act in the following topics:

• The Acts of Parliament

  • The Quartering Acts ordered the local governments of the American colonies to provide housing and provisions for British soldiers.
  • Following the expiration of an Act that provided British regulars with quartering in New York, Parliament passed the Quartering Act of 1765, which went far beyond what Gage had requested.
  • When 1,500 British troops arrived at New York City in 1766, the New York Provincial Assembly refused to comply with the Quartering Act and did not supply quartering for the troops.
  • The Quartering Act was circumvented in all colonies other than Pennsylvania and expired on 1767.
  • An amendment to the original Quartering Act was passed on June 2, 1774.

• Tax Protests

  • The first wave of protests attacked the Stamp Act of 1765, and marked the first time Americans from each of the thirteen colonies met together and planned a common front against illegal taxes.
  • The Parliament attempted a series of taxes and punishments which met more and more resistance, namely the First Quartering Act (1765), the Declaratory Act (1766), the Townshend Revenue Act (1767), and the Tea Act (1773).
  • In response to the Boston Tea Party Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts: the Second Quartering Act (1774), the Quebec Act (1774), the Massachusetts Government Act (1774), the Administration of Justice Act (1774), the Boston Port Act (1774), and the Prohibitory Act (1775).

• The Coercive Acts

  • The first of the acts passed in response to the Boston Tea Party was the Boston Port Act.
  • The Quartering Act applied to all of the colonies and sought to create a more effective method of housing British troops in America.
  • The new Quartering Act allowed a governor to house soldiers in other buildings if suitable quarters were not provided.
  • Although many colonists found the Quartering Act objectionable, it generated the least amount of protest of the Coercive Acts.
  • The citizens of Boston viewed the Coercive Acts as an act of unnecessary and cruel punishment that inflamed outrage against Britain even further.

• Slave Families

  • “While the form of family life in the quarters differed radically from that among free Negroes and whites, this does not mean it failed to perform many of the traditional functions of the family—the rearing of children being one of the most important of these functions.
  • In the quarters, he “acted like a man”, castigating whites for the mistreatment of himself and his family; in the field working for the master, he appeared obedient and submissive.
  • He believes that children recognized submissiveness as a convenient method to avoid punishment and the behavior in the quarters as the true behavioral model.

• Swelling Protest

  • Following the Molasses, Sugar, and Quartering Acts, Parliament passed one of the most infamous pieces of legislation: the Stamp Act.
  • However, the Stamp Act provided the first internal tax on the colonists and faced vehement opposition throughout the colonies.
  • In addition to the specific protests of the Stamp Act taxes, it asserted that:
  • Public outrage over the Stamp Act was demonstrated most notably in Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island.
  • Samuel Adams was a leader in the colonial opposition of Stamp Act.

• The Townshend Acts

  • The acts were also meant to create a more effective means of enforcing compliance with trade regulations, to punish the province of New York for failing to comply with the 1765 Quartering Act, and to establish the precedent that the British Parliament had the right to tax the colonies.
  • The first of the Townshend Acts, sometimes simply known as the Townshend Act, was the Revenue Act of 1767.
  • This act represented a new approach for generating tax revenue in the American colonies after the repeal of the Stamp Act in 1766.
  • The original stated purpose of the Revenue Act and the following Townshend Acts was to raise revenue to pay the cost of maintaining an army in North America.
  • They helped end the Stamp Act in 1766.

• Civil Rights and Voting Rights

  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 were landmark pieces of legislation that addressed major forms of discrimination.
  • The Act was initiated by President John F.
  • Following the passage of the act, a quarter of a million African Americans registered to vote, and by 1967, the majority of African Americans had done so.
  • The Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act changed the lives of African Americans and transformed society in many ways.
  • Examine the passage and significance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Enforcing the Navigation Acts

  • Later revisions of the Act added new regulations.
  • Ships' crews had to be three-quarters English, and ship captains were required to post bond to ensure compliance.
  • The Acts were in full force for a short time only.
  • On the whole, the Navigation Acts were more or less obeyed by colonists, despite their dissatisfaction, until the Molasses and Sugar Acts.
  • Describe the central stipulations of the Navigation Acts and the Acts' effect on the political and economic situation in the colonies

• The Stimulus Package and the Occupy Movement

  • Through the Act, the Obama administration pumped almost $800 billion into the economy to stimulate economic growth and job creation.
  • On August 2, 2011, after a lengthy congressional debate over whether to raise the nation's debt limit, Obama signed the bipartisan Budget Control Act of 2011.
  • During 2014, the unemployment rate continued to decline, falling to 6.3% in the first quarter.
  • Gross domestic product (GDP) growth returned in the third quarter of 2009, expanding at a rate of 1.6%, followed by a 5.0% increase in the fourth quarter.
  • Growth continued in 2010, posting an increase of 3.7% in the first quarter, with lesser gains throughout the rest of the year.

• America's Growing Involvement in WWII

  • Though "cash and carry" concepts had already been introduced in the Neutrality Acts of 1936 and 1937, these Acts only pertained to materials that could not be used in war efforts.
  • The Act effectively ended the United States' pretense of neutrality.
  • Neutrality Acts of the 1930's.
  • From 1943–1944, roughly a quarter of all British munitions came through Lend-Lease.
  • FDR signs the Lend-Lease Act in 1941, marking greater U.S. involvement in WWII