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3. Bonnie Prince Charlie to the Scots or The Young Pretender to the English people, was James VII and II’s Catholic grandson.
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8. It was designed to secure the Protestant succession to the throne, and to strengthen the guarantees for ensuring a parliamentary system of government.
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It was a British joint-stock company founded in 1711, created as a public-private partnership to consolidate and reduce the cost of national debt.
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5. Britain’s First Prime Minister
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The term that refers to the First Jacobite Rebellion.
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15. The Young Pretender, attempted to win the throne for his father in 1745, but was defeated at the Battle of _____.
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13. The Jacobite rising of 1715 was the attempt by James Francis Edward Stuart to regain the thrones of England, Ireland and _____for the exiled House of Stuart.
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2. They were a group of mostly Scottish people in the late 17th and 18th centuries, who believed that the Catholic James VII of Scotland (James II of England) and his Stuart descendants should be restored to the throne of Scotland and England. The word comes from Jacobus, the Latin version of James.
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The ____ 1723 was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1723 in response to a series of raids by two groups of poachers, known as the Blacks. It was expanded over the years.
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The first Hanoverian king in England
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24. During the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14) George fought with distinction against the ___.
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11. The protestant ______ of the Palatinate (modern-day Germany) was predetermined to become the next queen of Great Britain. However, ______ died shortly before Anne, and the throne went to her son, George.
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23. The House of Hanover were of German descent who succeeded the House of ____ as kings of Great Britain in 1714
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18. The____ Act 1720, which forbade the creation of joint-stock companies without royal charter, was promoted by the South Sea company itself before its collapse.
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13. The Jacobite _____ of 1715 was the attempt by James Francis Edward Stuart to regain the thrones of England, Ireland and Scotland for the exiled House of Stuart.
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4. George’s I native language
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10. Queen Anne died without an ____ in 1714
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16. It was the Liberal party of England.
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17. It was the Conservative Party of England.
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