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3. The United Kingdom __________ in developing Western ideas of the
parliamentary system as well as making significant contributions to
literature, the arts, and science.
4. After the defeat of Napoleon in the Napoleonic Wars, the UK emerged
as the __________ of the 19th century and remained an eminent power
into the mid-20th century.
5. However, Marshall Aid and costly loans __________ both the United
States and Canada helped the UK on the road to recovery.
6. Changes in government policy also __________ people from all over
the Commonwealth to create a multiethnic Britain.
7. Although the new postwar limits of Britain's political role __________
by the Suez Crisis of 1956, the international spread of the English
language meant the continuing influence of its literature and culture,
while from the 1960s its popular culture also found influence abroad.
8. The kingdoms of England and Scotland were _______ from the 9th
century.
9. Britain was ruled by a __________ with two titles (King of England
and King of Scots).
10. The succession to the throne of England, Ireland and Scotland
__________ by the English Act of Settlement.
11. Legislative power was __________ in the Parliament of Great Britain,
which replaced the Parliament of England and the Parliament of
Scotland.
12. England and the Netherlands __________ the Nine Years' War as
allies.
13. The 18th century would see England (after 1707, Britain) rise to be the
world's dominant colonial power, and France becoming its __________
on the imperial stage.
14. During the 1760s and 1770s, relations between the Thirteen Colonies
and Britain became __________, primarily because of resentment of
the British Parliament's ability to tax American colonists without their
consent.
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