jan 2, 1774 - Intolerable Acts, Quebec Act

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INTOLERABLE ACTS
- Consequence of Boston Tea Party
- Closed the Boston ports
- Banned town meetings in MA
- Royal-appointed governor given more power
- Started quartering of British soldiers
- British officers would be tried for crimes committed in America elsewhere

QUEBEC ACT
- Annexed to Quebec area East of Mississippi River and North of Ohio River, grants Catholics greater religious freedom there
- Protestants in the area angry
- Canadians move into what was American land