What was the Act of Supremacy of 1534?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B. It made the monarch Supreme Head of the Church of England
- Step 1: The Act declared Henry VIII head of the English church in place of the Pope.
- Step 2: It followed his failure to obtain an annulment from Catherine of Aragon.
Answer
It made the monarch Supreme Head of the Church of England.
Why not the others: The union with Wales came in the Acts of 1536 and 1543; the other options are not what the Act did.
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