Barbiturates

question 488

Multiple Choice

Barbiturates:

• A) interfere with REM sleep.
• B) are a class of powerful hallucinatory drugs.
• C) stimulate regions at the base of the brain and enhance alertness.
• D) are derived from opium.

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Definitions:

Stamp Act Congress

A meeting of delegates from several American colonies in 1765, formed to protest the British Stamp Act and organize resistance.

Declaratory Act

A law passed by the British Parliament in 1766 stating that the British government had the same power to tax and make laws for the American colonies "in all cases whatsoever" as it did in Britain.

Stamp Act

Parliament’s 1765 requirement that revenue stamps be affixed to all colonial printed matter, documents, and playing cards; the Stamp Act Congress met to formulate a response, and the act was repealed the following year.