quartering of soldiers act?

Question

ok so we are making a rap for the bill of rights and i have to do ammendant 3 and i was thinking for one of my lines to be "this ammendmant was place becaused of what the british did to the colonists in 1768" but im not sure if that is true.

my question is when did the quartering of soldiers happen?

Answer 1

Actually, they did to the colnists in 1765. The admendment was placed into the Bill of Rights for that very purpose. It was a way for the Birtish government to control the populace better and not spend money on forts and camps.

Answer 2

This occurred after the French and Indian War, and basically required Mr. and Mrs. Average Colonist to provide free room and board to British soldiers.

Now, some of these men were okay, but there were others that one might not care to have under the roof as invited guests--much less having their company forced on the family.

Thomas Paine, a little over a decade later, referred to "a generation of children of uncertain paternity" (or at least words to that effect) in, I believe, his pamphlet "Common Sense." It seems that some of the soldiers who were quartered on the colonists figured that whatever was in the house was theirs for the taking--food, drink, beds, and the women who occupied those beds. A man had no way, really, of protecting his wife or daughters from potential rape by the more unprincipled soldiers.

This left such a bad taste in the mouths of those who would, in future, become known as Americans that it was included as part of the Bill of Rights (but you already know that)--and, to the best of my knowledge, the US has never quartered its troops in private homes.