Quartering Act

3rd Cause of the Revolutionary War

Lesson Goals

• Students will know what life was like for a soldier living with colonists and for a colonist housing a soldier

• Students will know why Britain passed these laws

• Students will know colonists’ reaction to these laws

Quartering Act- 1765

• Ordered colonists to allow British troops to stay in their homes if asked

• Provide candles, bedding, food, and drink as well

British argument

• Troops are there to keep colonists safe• Need a place to stay!• It was a way to save money with thousands of

soldiers stationed along the Proclamation Line

Colonist argument

• Costs money to provide them with housing• Didn’t ask for soldiers to be there in the first

place• We are forced to house, feed and clothe

British soldiers who were stationed in the colonies

• Some soldiers were rude to colonists

Lesson Goals

• Students will know what life was like for a soldier living with colonists and for a colonist housing a soldier

• Students will know why Britain passed these laws

• Students will know colonists’ reaction to these laws

Answers to Prospective sheet• Quartering Act (1765)- Required for colonists to house, feed, and clothe

British troops who were stationed in the colonies. • British Perspective- As our troops are stationed in the colonies, to protect

them, we see it only fair that they house the soldiers. Many of these soldiers fought in the war against France and the Indians to help the colonists. We are in terrible debt from the war and it would cost entirely too much money to build the soldiers houses. Plus, the soldiers are there to protect the colonists, so they owe them.

• Colonist Perspective- We do not want the soldiers here. They are keeping us from our land in the Ohio River Valley. Now we are being forced to take care of them by letting them live in our houses. This causes us many problems. We don’t have enough room in our houses, don’t have enough money to buy them food and clothing, and they are extremely rude and they scare us. This puts an extreme burden on our families.