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Why did colonist oppose the quartering acts?

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They were being taxed and had to house the British soldiers after the French and Indian War

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The Quartering Act of 1765 was resented and protested by American colonists, not because it meant they had to house British soldiers in their households, but because they were taxed to pay for the army's supplies and barracks-a standing army they felt was needless during peacetime and an army they feared was unnecessary

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