What did the Quartering Act do? Remember that it was part of the four measures that encompassed the Coercive/Intolerable designed to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. Responses It allowed British troops to be housed in public or unoccupied buildings if the colonies refused to provide adequate barracks for them. It allowed the royal governor to move any trial of a British officer out of Massachusetts to prevent hostile juries (made up by colonists) from deciding on a conviction. It made traditional town meetings subject to the governor’s approval. It shut down Boston Harbor until the East India Company was repaid for the destruction of the tea during the Boston Tea Party.

What did the Quartering Act do? Remember that it was part of the four measures that encompassed the Coercive/Intolerable designed to punish Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party. Responses It allowed British troops to be housed in public or unoccupied buildings if the colonies refused to provide adequate barracks for them. It allowed the royal governor to move any trial of a British officer out of Massachusetts to prevent hostile juries (made up by colonists) from deciding on a conviction. It made traditional town meetings subject to the governor’s approval. It shut down Boston Harbor until the East India Company was repaid for the destruction of the tea during the Boston Tea Party.