quartering

(noun)

The provision of lodging or other accommodations. 

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Examples of quartering in the following topics:

  • The Acts of Parliament

    • 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.
    • The new Quartering Act similarly allowed a governor to house soldiers in other buildings, such as barns, inns, among other unoccupied structures, if suitable quarters were not provided.

  • The Coercive Acts

    • 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.

  • 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 his and his family's mistreatment; 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.

  • Tax Protests

    • 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).

  • Washington's Escape from New York

    • Howe ordered his troops into winter quarters, when Washington, in a tremendous boost to American morale, launched a successful strike against the Trenton garrison after crossing the icy Delaware River.
    • With the campaign at an apparent conclusion for the season, the British established a chain of outposts and entered winter quarters.
    • The British lost more than one quarter of their force in the battle, and American morale rose with the victory.
    • Washington entered winter quarters at Morristown, having retaken most of the state from the British.

  • The Stimulus Package and the Occupy Movement

    • Following a decrease to 9.7% in the first quarter of 2010, the unemployment rate continued to fall moderately; by November 2012 it had reached 7.7%, and in the last month of 2013 it had decreased to 6.7%.
    • 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.

  • Quebec, New York, and New Jersey

    • The British lost more than a quarter of their forces in the battle and convinced General Howe to withdraw most of his army from New Jersey, with only outposts at New Brunswick and Perth Amboy remaining.
    • After both British and Continental Army troops entered their winter quarters in early January, Continental Army forces from New Jersey and Pennsylvania engaged in numerous scouting and harassing operations against British and German troops quartered in New Jersey.

  • Slave Religion

    • In the quarters, he "acted like a man," castigating whites for the mistreatment of himself and his family.
    • According to Blassingame, "Sometimes children internalized both the true personality traits and the contradictory behavioral patterns of their parents. " He believes that children recognized submissiveness as a convenient method to avoid punishment and the behavior in the quarters as the true behavioral model.

  • The Revolutionary Army at Valley Forge

    • Undernourished, poorly clothed, and living in crowded, damp quarters, the army was ravaged by sickness.
    • Children received quarter rations.

  • Economic Stagnation

    • The sudden fall in gross domestic product (GDP) during the second quarter caused unemployment to jump from 6% to 7.5% by May, with output in the auto and housing sectors falling by over 20% to their weakest level since the 1975 recession.
    • Although the hard-hit auto and housing sectors would not recover substantially, GDP and employment totals regained pre-recession levels by the first quarter of 1981.