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The Quebec Act
Following the British victory over France in the Seven Years' War, the territories of France in northern North America, known as Canada, were granted to Britain in the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The British renamed the territory Quebec. And Britain found itself with the challenge to integrate a society that was essentially different from England in terms of language, religion, and legal systems. At this time, Roman Catholicism or “popery” was viewed by Britain as the religion of its most important enemies France and Spain. The main religion in Britain at the time was British Protestantism which held close ties to the Whig political Ideology born after the glorious revolution. This doctrinal legacy prescribed that all British subjects were possessed of very definite and equal liberties, liberties endowed upon and limited to those who conformed to the Whig-Protestant definition of being British (Cusak, 2007).And problems raised, the English and constitutional......

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