MCAP Grade 8 Social Studies Practice Questions - Maryland Comprehensive Assessment Program Social Studies - Grade 8 Exam

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Read the excerpt below from the Quartering Act of 1765: "[If] full quarters shall not be provided... the officers and soldiers... shall be quartered and billetted in inns, livery stables, ale-houses, victualling-houses... and in default of them, in uninhabited houses, out-houses, barns, or other buildings..." How did American colonists react to the implementation of the Quartering Act?

They viewed it as an unlawful burden and an intrusion on their private rights and colonial assemblies. They welcomed British troops because the army paid generous rent for colonial housing. They petitioned Parliament to increase the number of soldiers stationed in colonial cities. They surrendered their colonial charters and voluntarily dissolved local assemblies.

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They viewed it as an unlawful burden and an intrusion on their private rights and colonial assemblies.

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