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12 Αυγ 2013 · Considered one of the five “Intolerable Acts” by the Thirteen American Colonies, the Quebec Act was one of the direct causes of the American Revolutionary War (1775–83). It was followed by the Constitutional Act in 1791. This is the full-length entry about the Quebec Act of 1774.
The Quebec Act, 1774 (French: Acte de Québec de 1774) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain which set procedures of governance in the Province of Quebec.
Quebec Act, act of the British Parliament in 1774 that vested the government of Quebec in a governor and council and preserved the French Civil Code, the seigneurial system of land tenure, and the Roman Catholic Church.
Learn about the Quebec Act, 1774, a British law that granted French Catholics in Quebec more rights and powers. Find out how it affected the British empire and the American Revolution.
The Quebec Act was a British law that expanded Quebec's territory and granted religious freedoms to French Catholics in 1774. It aimed to appease the French population and prevent them from joining the American Revolution, but it also angered many American colonists who claimed the land and resented the Catholic Church.
The Quebec Act was an item of legislation passed by the British Parliament in June 1774. It established procedures for government, administration and law in Quebec, a province acquired from the French in the Treaty of Paris a decade earlier.
The Quebec Act, passed by the British Parliament on June 22, 1774, stands as one of the most significant pieces of legislation in the history of British North America, shaping the future of what would become Canada and contributing to the tensions that sparked the American Revolution.
