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However the author didn’t mention one thing. One of the
Intolerable Acts was unrelated to those Acts passed in reaction
to The Boston Tea Party, i.e. The Coercive Acts. The Quebec Act,
although passed by the same Parliament, was unrelated to the
events in Boston. The reason it was ‘intolerable’ was that the
Quebec Act granted French Canadians the right to keep their
religion and their laws. It was no longer necessary to convert
to Protestantism to hold positions in the colony of Quebec. It
also, by defining the boundaries of Quebec, upset the plans of
many colonists who were planning on land speculation and trade.
Yes, one of the Acts that triggered the American Revolution
angered Americans because it granted rights to other people and
screwed up their plans to get rich. Funny how that gets
overlooked.