The Quartering Act: The Cause Of The American Revolution

What if you were forced to pay for things you didn't want? If you were a colonist in the late 1700's, then your life was always being forced to do something. In fact, it happened so often that the colonists were starting to get fed up. The colonists were treated very harsh and had many boundaries to stay within. The British's forceful treatment caused the Americans to revolt because of things like acts being passed without proper representation. This made colonist furious and later led to the American Revolution.
The Sugar Act was one of the reasons Americans started to resist Britain and made way for the American Revolution. Britain's parliament realized that the colonies were making great profit off of selling rum. Sugar was needed in order to make rum. By passing the Sugar Act, it would force the
The colonies were already fed up with the way the British treated them. So after this act was passed many were already up to the top with Britain. Most Americans believed that the British Army was present just to keep the Americans in line. So it is no wonder why this Act added to the tensions and why the Quartering Act was deeply resented by many.
Not only were the colonists forced to house the British soldiers, they also had to let them use whatever they wanted where they were housed. The Quartering Act had a big impact on America. It made colonists feel like they were being controlled by Britain, which was true. It started uprisings and battles between the colonists and British, but the colonists won more than Britain.
At of all the Acts, one of the most despised was the Stamp Act. After this Act was passed, many people were upset. The British Parliament had been forcing them to do things and now they had to pay taxes on anything as little as playing cards and all the way up to land deeds. After the few ears that all these Acts were being passed, the colonist finally weren’t having