Answer the questions based on the text 1)List words here that you feel have a negative connotation or meaning (min 2)

2)What are the colonists protesting?

3)What is the gist of their grievance?

4)Choose one word you feel contains the “gist” of the petition, use it to construct a sentence describing the quartering act.

Text: Legislative Petition Opposing The Quartering Act, 1767

We, His Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal Subjects, the General Assembly of the Colony of New York, have taken your Excellency’s message of the 17th of November last, into our most serious Consideration: and beg Leave to assure your Excellency that nothing would give us a greater Pleasure than to find it in our Power to comply with every Requisition tending in any manner to promote His Majesty’s Service. It is therefore with great Concern that we find it impossible to comply with what is now demanded, consistent with our Obligations to our Constituents [citizens of the colony]… In the Provision we made last Session for quartering Two Battalions and one Company of Artillery, we loaded ourselves with a Burden much greater than any of the neighboring Governments lie under for that Service, and imagined that, far from being censured on that Account, it would be accepted as a new Instance of that Loyalty and Affection to His Majesty’s Government, of which this Colony has exhibited so many Proofs. We beg Leave, further, to represent to your Excellency that, by the Act of Parliament, it appears to be the Intention of the Legislature to provide for the quartering Soldiers only on a March; but according to the Construction [interpretation] put on it here, it is required that all the Forces which shall at any Time enter this Colony, shall be quartered during the whole Year, in a very unusual and expensive Manner: That by marching several Regiments into this Colony, this Expense would become ruinous and insupportable; And, therefore, we cannot [be] consistent with our Duty to our Constituents, put it in the Power of any Person…to lay such a Burden on them.