“his majesty hereby requires the the people to house ad quarter the officers.” (quartering act document 5) with this you can see that the quartering act (document 5) is stating that the king of great britain is making the colonist house and clothe the soldiers in barracks and their own houses great britain has do this for two reasons one in which great britain doesn't want to go into another war and two because the colonist have been doing illegal trade with the spaniards. in document 7 there is a visual. this visual is showng the land owned by great britian after the French and indian war . the land that great britain owns is the 13 colonies florida and part of canada.and right on the border of all that land was spain.since the british were in debt they were trying to do everything the could do so that the colonist won't get great britain into a