The Quebec Act and the American Colonies U.S. Naval War College professor Marc Genest explained the Quebec Act of 1774 and the American colonists' reaction to it.

With limited resources and uncertain loyalty from the local population, Carleton relied on defensive strategies and hoped the Quebec Act of 1774 would secure French-Canadian support. Extra History ...

The act was intended to appease the Québécois prior to the… U.S. Naval War College professor Marc Genest explained the Quebec Act of 1774 and the American colonists' reaction to it.

With the Quebec Act of 1774, they scrapped the application of the anti-Catholic oaths – not in Britain, where they remained the law for another half-century, but in Canada.

Sir Guy Carleton, an Irish Protestant who served as Governor of Quebec, has been celebrated for enacting the Quebec Act in 1774, the first Canadian constitution to enshrine values underlying pluralism ...

Beyond redrawing North American borders and establishing a permanent system of governance, the Quebec Act of 1774 fundamentally changed British notions of empire and authority. Although it is ...

The Quebec Act of 1774 recognised the French language, and religious rights for Catholics. But in 1838, a pro-independence uprising forced Britain to turn its North American colonies into the ...