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Quebec Act
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Quebec Act

(1774) British statute establishing Quebec's government and extending its borders. It provided for a governor and appointed council, religious freedom for Roman Catholics, and use of the French civil code. The act attempted to resolve the problem of making the colony a province of British North America and tried to build French-Canadian loyalty to the British. It also extended the borders of Quebec to include the land between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, a region claimed by American colonists. It was considered one of the Intolerable Acts, which led to the American Revolution.


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The French clergy argued, however, that, by the Quebec Act of 1774, the British government guaranteed them rights and privileges denied Roman Catholics in the American colonies.
 
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