An example of anti-Catholicism during the 1770s was the
A) barring of Catholics from southern state militias.
B) Second Continental Congress's refusal to accept aid from Catholic France.
C) widespread arrests of Catholics as potential British spies by Pennsylvania authorities.
D) famous attack on a Boston convent by Massachusetts minutemen.
E) First Continental Congress's denunciation of the Quebec Act.

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The Quebec Act of 1774 extended the boundaries of Quebec and granted freedom of worship to Catholics, which alarmed the predominantly Protestant Thirteen Colonies. They saw it as a threat to their liberty and an example of British favoritism towards Catholics, leading to its denunciation by the First Continental Congress as an intolerable act.

An Example of Anti-Catholicism During the 1770s Was the