The Quebec Act and Women

I found it interesting that the British gave the colonist in Quebec more freedoms than the colonists in America. The Quebec Act of 1774 permitted the colonists in Canada to maintain their French style government. The Canadians were given certain rights from the British that were denied to the other colonists in America. They were also allowed to maintain their religious beliefs and they were permitted to self govern themselves. Why were the British more lenient with the Canadians than they were with the other colonies? Is it because the Canadians didn’t provide as much profit for Britain as the other colonies did?

Also, from the lectures in class we learned that women got involved in boycotting. Women played a large role in buying British goods for their families and their participation in the boycotting of the Townshend Revenue Act helped get it repealed. I found this interesting because not much female patriotism is mentioned before this time. If women helped so much by boycotting the British how come they were denied the same rights as men?