Question
A group of people from this polity were dumped in a squalid camp in Blackheath before being shipped off to work in naval stores in the Hudson Valley. For 10 points each:
[10m] Daniel Defoe advocated for “poor” people from what polity during a 1700s refugee crisis? James I married off his daughter Elizabeth Stuart to a ruler of this polity who was made King of Bohemia in 1619.
ANSWER: the Palatinate [or Electoral Palatinate, Electorate of the Palatinate, Pfalz, Kurpfalz, or Rhineland-Palatinate; accept Poor Palatines or Elector Palatine]
[10e] Whigs supported extending this process to the Poor Palatines via a 1708 act named for “foreign protestants.” A 1753 Act allowed British Jews to pursue this general process of gaining citizenship.
ANSWER: naturalization [accept Foreign Protestants Naturalisation Act 1708 or Jewish Naturalisation Act 1753]
[10h] Naturalization was refused to London’s “Black Poor,” a class whose fate contrasts with this other freed slave who was painted with Elizabeth Murray. This ward of Lord Mansfield is often called Britain’s “first Black aristocrat.”
ANSWER: Dido Elizabeth Belle
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Summary
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| BHSU B | LMM's LLM MLM | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |