The Quartering Act

This is actually an amendment to the Mutiny Act, which required the colonial authorities to provide food, drink, quarters, fuel and transport to the British forces stationed in their town or village. Naturally, the colonists resented this and, as a result, the Third Amendment to the US Constitution forbade the practice during peacetime.

The reason for the Act was primarily in response to an increase in costs following the French and Indian War, and Pontiac’s War, and it came almost directly after the Stamp Act. After several years of resentment and tumult, the Act was allowed to expire in 1770.