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Leislers Rebellion
• English wanted to expand direct political control into the Americas
• Replaced government positions with English Military officials.
• Over-threw colonists’ established laws
• New England, especially Massachusetts, resisted.
• England punished them, declared them a royal colony.
England established the “Dominion of New England”
• James II as well as others practiced Catholicism and allowed it to be worshiped.
Glorious Revolution, William and Mary (daughter of James II) rebelled, established a limited monarchy.
• Triggered New England to rebel, they arrested their governor. • New York’s attempt to drive English influence out.
• Boston formed a city militia with Dutch and non- English colonists.
• Leisler took command, and seized the harbor’s main fort.
• English troops arrived, and Leisler denied them entry, but then was soon arrested.
• Many of the elite New Yorkers he arrested for questioning his authority convinced the New Governor to charge him with treason.
Massachusetts’s Hostility Leisler’s Rebellion
• English wanted to expand direct political control into the Americas
• Replaced government positions with English Military officials.
• Over-threw colonists’ established laws
• New England, especially Massachusetts, resisted.
• England punished them, declared them a royal colony.
• England established the “Dominion of New England”
• James II as well as others practiced Catholicism and allowed it to be worshiped.
• Glorious Revolution, William and Mary (daughter of James II) rebelled, established a limited monarchy.
• Triggered New England to rebel, they arrested their governor. • New York’s attempt to drive English influence out.
• Boston formed a city militia with Dutch and non- English colonists.
• Leisler took command, and seized the harbor’s main fort.
• English troops arrived, and Leisler denied them entry, but then was soon arrested.
• Many of the elite New Yorkers he arrested for questioning his authority convinced the

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