Quebec Act
With the addition of Canada to the British Empire, Britain gained control of a strip of territory along the St. Lawrence River with a population of at least 70,000 francophone Roman Catholics, which was expanded and renamed as the Province of Quebec under the "Quebec Act". Although many British people (including the American colonies to the south) hoped the French Canadians would be assimilated this was not the case as distinct rules of governance for Quebec were set out in the "Quebec Act" such as allowing the French Canadians to retain their Catholic religion and their French system of civil law. The "Quebec Act" became one of the Intolerable Acts that infuriated the thirteen British colonies in what would become the United States of America.