Who passed the Quebec Act of 1774?

Discover Canada records this in one direct sentence about the Quebec Act. The guide writes: To better govern the French Roman Catholic majority, the British Parliament passed the Quebec Act of 1774. One of the constitutional foundations of Canada, the Quebec Act accommodated the principles of British institutions to the reality of the province. The body the test wants is therefore the British Parliament.

Three precise commitments. Discover Canada commits the Quebec Act of 1774 to THREE specific facts: (1) it was passed by the British Parliament; (2) the purpose was to better govern the French Roman Catholic majority; (3) the Act is named as one of the constitutional foundations of Canada. So the source pinpoints both who passed the Act and why.

The Act made specific named provisions for Catholics. Discover Canada commits the Quebec Act's named provisions to one direct passage: "It allowed religious freedom for Catholics and permitted them to hold public office, a practice not then allowed in Britain. The Quebec Act restored French civil law while maintaining British criminal law." So the British Parliament's 1774 Act granted three major provisions: religious freedom for Catholics; the right of Catholics to hold public office; and a hybrid French-civil-British-criminal legal system for the province.

The Act came after British victory in 1759. Discover Canada commits the Quebec Act's historical setting to the conquest of New France: France's empire ended at the Battle of the Plains of Abraham at Québec City in 1759, when both commanders — Brigadier James Wolfe and the Marquis de Montcalm — were killed leading their troops in battle. After the British victory, the new colony's French Roman Catholic majority needed a workable legal framework — and the British Parliament's 1774 Quebec Act provided it. The Act anticipated the broader Canadian tradition of accommodation between English and French traditions, between Protestant and Catholic communities, and between common-law and civil-law legal systems. The Quebec Act remains named in Discover Canada as one of the constitutional foundations of Canada — a legal achievement passed by the British Parliament fifteen years after the Conquest. So when the test asks who passed the Quebec Act of 1774, the source-precise answer is the British Parliament.

The question is testing whether new citizens know who passed the Quebec Act of 1774. Discover Canada commits to one body: the British Parliament. The right test answer matches that.

The wrong answer choices each substitute a different body. The first choice describes a body that did not exist in 1774; Canada was a British colony then. The third choice describes a body that never had jurisdiction over British North American colonies after the Conquest of 1759. The fourth choice — the Provincial Assembly — would not have passed an Act of this constitutional importance; the BNA Act and other foundational laws came from the British Parliament. Only the British Parliament — the source's exact named body — matches.