 In the Thirteen Colonies, the "Quebec Act" had been passed in the same session of Parliament as a number of other acts designed as punishment for the Boston Tea Party and other protests, which the American Patriots collectively termed the "Intolerable" or in England officially the "Coercive Acts".The provisions of the "Quebec Act" were seen by the colonists as a new model for British colonial administration, which would strip the colonies of their elected assemblies.It seemed to void the land claims of the colonies by granting most of the Ohio Country to the province of Quebec.