Ranking second, the British military measures had further driven the colonist into hating the mother county. Passing the Quartering Act in 1765, which stated the British were able to send military personnel, Redcoats and others, to the colonial inhabitants and have them live within the houses of them colonials. With the six to twelve Redcoats living per house, this had angered the colonials because this had all been done without the authorization of the home owner. In 1789, on September the twenty-fifth, the first congress of the United States had proposed to the state legislatures twelve amendments to the Constitution that met arguments most frequently advanced against it, and in amendment three, they had said that no military personnel shall inhabit a house without the consent of the owner. If it had led the state legislatures to put this in the amendments, then it must have had really driven them to be in a licentious state and filled them with hate, because no one would enjoy a unsuspecting visitor in their own home, without any inhabitants of the house knowing it. Along with the Quarantining Acts, there was the Boston Massacre which ranked upon the same lines. A group of drunken colonists decided to walk up to the Redcoats and start a bit of a brawl. With the colonists inching closer, the Redcoats shot down sixty men with no command, and this action was from then on, known as "The shot heard "round the world" quoted from Paul Revere. These infamous words were spread around the world for propaganda, and declaring that these acts were intolerable and that this had meant war, and declared their separation and rebellion against Britain. Because of the military measures from which the British had proposed, it had made only more reason for the colonials to separate from the British and declare themselves a nation.
With the restriction of civil liberties, it ranked as the third most important factor as to why it promoted the Americans to rebel.