The Importance Of The Quartering Act

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The goal of the British government in relation to these acts was to earn money and protect their soldiers that occupied colonial land. Fearing that British loyalists would not be treated fairly, “...the Justice Act allowed trials for capital crimes to be transferred to other colonies or to Britain” (Henretta 153). This Act allowed the British soldiers who encroached on colonial land to have the option for a trial conducted in their own country, thus avoiding being tried in a colonial established court. A similar act designed to benefit the British, the Quartering Act was originally passed in 1765, citing the importance of “directing colonial governments to provide barracks and food for the British troops” (Henretta 138). When revised in 1774,