In 1765, two years after the end of the French and Indian War, Parliament passed the Quartering Act; the act stated that the colonies in America were to provide British soldiers with anything that they needed, such as room and board. However, a seven-year war had just ended for the colonists, the conflict between Britain and France over. Keeping British soldiers in the colonies was unnecessary, and an excessive requirement during peacetime when the colonies would have to pay for the provisions that the soldiers needed. Hence, the Quartering Act was rebelled fiercely by the colonists in fear that Parliament was attempting to tax them without their consent. Also, others believed that the soldiers were there not for defense, but for enforcing
