It's the Writs Of Assistance that allowed the British to search homes. =)
This was on my History Test!
The Writs of Assistance is what allowed the British to search the colonists' homes. It was similar to a search warrant.
British soldiers were given writs of assistance that allowed them to conduct searches. This angered many colonists who argued the writs violated their rights.
The Revenue Act was an act in which authorized British officials to search the colonists' homes or ships anytime they wished. However, it was under the guise of searching for smuggled goods.
because it gave the British a way to search their homes [it was like a search warrant] by the community
Writs of Assistance
It's the Writs Of Assistance that allowed the British to search homes. =) This was on my History Test!
What were general search warrants which authorized british officials to shearch colonists homes
Writs of Assistance were passed to empower British soldiers to search any colonial home they believed harbored smuggled goods. Writs of Assistance enhanced the Townshend Acts. The Writs of Assistance aroused a lot of anger and were challenged in every court in the thirteen colonies.
In Britain officers employed to search for smuggled goods were known as excisemen.
It allowed British soldiers to enter the colonists homes without permission and take anything that seemed like a threat to Briton. (They also sometimes took stuff that they wanted)
Actually it was the quartering act that forced the colonials to accept British soldiers in their homes.
it made colonists accept british troops into their homes