The Quartering Act
What Canadians should learn from US History
In 1774, faced with increasingly defiant colonies, Great Britain passed a series of punitive laws which, along with the Quebec Act would become known as the Intolerable Acts or Coercive Acts. The acts consisted of the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act. This last act “sought to …
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