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The Quebec Act Was Especially Unpopular in the American Colonies

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The Quebec Act was especially unpopular in the American colonies because it did all of the following EXCEPT


A) it aroused anti-Catholic sentiment among Protestant American colonists who feared the act's extension of Catholic influence in North America.
B) it potentially undermined the asserted democratic rights and institutions of American colonists, including the right to jury trials and the election of representative assemblies, throughout North America, not merely in Quebec.
C) it denied French colonists in Quebec and the Ohio River Valley the right to retain many of their old customs and institutions.
D) it alarmed land speculators, who saw a huge area in the Ohio River Valley snatched from their grasp.
E) it was regarded as an unjustified political reaction by the British authorities to the unrest in Boston.

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