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28. The correct answer is (B).
James II, who ascended the throne of England in 1685, was a devout Roman
Catholic. The English resented his systematic attempts—of dubious legality—to relax the laws against the
few Catholics in England and to promote them to positions of authority. A group of members of Parliament
secretly invited his Protestant daughter, Mary, and her husband William to assume the throne. They accepted,
and when William and Mary arrived, James fled the country, whereupon Parliament declared the throne to be
vacant and proclaimed William and Mary to be king and queen of England. This bloodless revolution helped
to establish Parliament’s supremacy over the crown.

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■ SAT II Subject Tests
29. The correct answer is (C). The event referred to is the famous “Tennis Court Oath.” In 1789, with
France facing bankruptcy, Louis XVI convened the Estates-General at Versailles. The Third Estate, con-
sisting mostly of members of the middle class, demanded that the members of the Estates-General be
counted individually (rather than allowing each Estate to have a single vote). The effect of such a change
would have been to give the Third Estate control of the Estates-General. The government refused to agree
to this demand. In response, the Third Estate declared itself to be a National Assembly and the only true
representative of the nation. Three days later, they returned to find their assembly room locked.The group
adjourned to a nearby tennis court and swore the Tennis Court Oath.
30. The correct answer is (C). Isolationism in the 1930s was aimed at withdrawing the United States
from foreign affairs, but, in a sense, “foreign” affairs did not include the affairs of the Western Hemi-
sphere. In fact, the very idea of isolationism required that the nations of the Western Hemisphere
close ranks. To that end, the United States during the 1930s was willing to offer Latin American
countries economic assistance to combat the worldwide depression and tacitly to disavow the “big
stick” policy of President Theodore Roosevelt.