HIST 383 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: James Francis Edward Stuart, House Of Stuart, Toleration
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Great britain was invented in 1707 when the parliament of. Westminster passed the act of union linking scotland to. From now on, this document stated there would be one united kingdom by the name of great britain, with one protestant ruler, one legislature and one system of free trade. Like the earlier act of union between england and. Wales in 1536, this was a union of policy. The politicians in london had feared that unless a formal, political union with scotland was cemented, the country might opt on the death of childness. Queen anne for james edward stuart, her exiled. Roman catholic half-brother instead of agreeing, as the english and welsh had done to import a new. Scotland and england had been drawing increasingly together since the 16th century reformation and since. 1603, the two countries had been ruled by the same stuart dynasty.
