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In 1765, Parliament passed an amendment to the Mutiny Act, which became known as the Quartering Act of 1765. Contrary to popular belief, this Quartering Act did not direct British soldiers to be billeted in the private homes of the colonists.enraged the colonists by having what appeared to be foreign soldiers boarded in American cities and taking away their authority to keep the soldiers distant.
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designed to close Boston Harbor to "the landing and discharging, lading or shipping, of goods, wares, and merchandise, The thirteen colonies were deeply disturbed by the Boston Port Act, and came together in a way that shocked Parliament. Rather than separating Boston from the rest of the colonies, the Boston Port Act ignited all of the colonies into anti-British actions.
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built to punish Massachusetts for its transgressions and consolidate power over the Thirteen Colonies.The colonists declared that it altered, by parliamentary fiat, the basic structure of colonial government, and vowed to block its implementation.
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the same day it passed the Massachusetts Government Act, which repealed the colony's charter the colonists reacted by dismissing of colonial legal rights and prerogatives
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It revoked the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which had aimed to assimilate the French-Canadian population under English rule. The Quebec Act was very unpopular among settlers in the Thirteen Colonies. They thought it was a kind of “British Authoritarianism.” It was considered one of the five “intolerable acts” passed by Britain in the lead-up to the revolution.