Quartering Act Research Paper

The British won the French and Indian war and the war over in Europe. France and England signed the Treaty of Paris of 1763 to officially conclude the war. In result of their loss, France lost almost all of its territory in North America east of the Mississippi (with the exception of New Orleans) to Britain. Spain (who allied with the French) lost Spanish Florida and gained French territory west of the Mississippi and New Orleans. The Native Americans on the land that was now owned by Britain desperately fought off white settlers trying to settle the land. The British were in great debt and didn’t have the money to send troops over to protect the colonists that wanted to settle in the West of the Appalachian Mountain. The British then issued the Proclamation Line of 1763, which banned colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountain. The Proclamation was widely ignored by the colonists who continued to pour …show more content…
It also called for a harsh punishment on smugglers; colonial merchants who smuggled protested this act and wanted it repealed. About a year later Parliament passed the Quartering Act, what the Quartering Act’s purpose was to save money by having the colonists provide the necessities of life to 10,000 British soldiers that Britain sent over to enforce the Proclamation Line of 1763. In early 1765, Parliament passed the Stamp Act. The Stamp Act required colonists to purchase special tax stamps to be put on all types of products. The products included mainly paper products and that caused many colonists to be angry because the act also put a tax on playing cards which were one of the only ways to pass time. The Stamp act was repealed after the colonists boycotted British goods. At the same time Parliament passed the Declaratory Act which stated that Parliament had total authority over the