Lex Anteinternet: Wednesday, June 22, 1774. The Quebec Act gains royal assent.

Saturday, June 22, 2024

Wednesday, June 22, 1774. The Quebec Act gains royal assent.

The Quebec Act, regarding by the thirteen British colonies to the south of Quebec as one of the Intolerable Acts, gained royal assent.

A rational and tolerant piece of legislation, it provided for greater accommodation of Catholicism and French law in Quebec and set its borders to include virtually all the trans-Appalachian West down to the Ohio River.

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Friday, May 27, 1774. Heading towards revolution.

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