The Quebec Act of 1774 extended Quebec's boundaries and allowed the free practice of Catholicism, which angered American colonists as it was seen as a threat to their own self-governance and Protestantism. It did not grant a representative assembly or trial by jury, which further fueled colonial resentment.

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The Quebec Act

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The Quebec Act

A) outlawed Catholicism in British Quebec.
B) provoked outrage among American colonists because it sustained unrepresentative colonial assemblies and denial of jury trials in Quebec, setting a dangerous undemocratic precedent in America.
C) restricted Quebec's boundaries to the area north of the Great Lakes.
D) was generally ignored by the thirteen seaboard colonies because it had little effect on their relations with Britain.
E) granted Quebec a representative assembly and trial by jury.

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