The 1689 Boston revolt was a popular uprising on April 18, 1689, against the rule of Sir Edmund Andros, the governor of the Dominion of New England. A...
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Leisler's Rebellion (redirect from Leisler's revolt)
and ruled it from 1689 to 1691. The uprising took place in the aftermath of England's Glorious Revolution and the 1689 Boston revolt in the Dominion of...
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Elizabeth City, North Carolina 1680 - Pueblo Revolt 1689 - Cochecho Massacre, June 28 1689 - Boston revolt, Angered Bostonians rose up against the royal...
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Nat Turner's Rebellion (redirect from Nat Turner Revolt)
rebels killed between 55 and 65 White people, making it the deadliest slave revolt for white people in U.S. history. The rebellion was effectively suppressed...
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Dominion of New England (category States and territories disestablished in 1689)
the Glorious Revolution in England reached Boston in 1689, and the Puritans launched the 1689 Boston revolt against Andros, arresting him and his officers...
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The Boston Massacre (known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street) was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which nine British soldiers...
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Weare NH Historical Society". Danver, S, ed. (2011). "Pine Tree Riot". Revolts, Protests, Demonstrations, and Rebellions in American History: An Encyclopedia...
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the creation of the Dominion of New England in 1686. Following the 1689 Boston revolt and collapse of the dominion, it again served as the governing document...
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List of revolutions and rebellions (redirect from List of revolutions and revolts)
Ongoing conflict 1847: The Taos Revolt in New Mexico against the United States. 1847: The Sonderbund War, a revolt by the Swiss Confederation against...
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Edmund Andros (section Revolt)
His actions in New England resulted in his overthrow during the 1689 Boston revolt. He became governor of Virginia three years later. Andros was considered...
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increasingly unpopular. On April 18, 1689, he was overthrown due to a brief revolt. The Dominion was not reestablished. Boston's first circulating library was...
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(Reprints a petition to the state legislature.) Middleton, Lamar (1968) [1938]. Revolt, USA. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press. OCLC 422400. Minot, George...
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initial excitement over the battle died down, many newsmen, especially in the Boston area, began to question the reasons behind the rebellion and investigated...
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Massachusetts 1689 Boston revolt Boston bread riot (1710–1713) Knowles Riot (1747) Liberty affair (1768) Boston Massacre (1770) Shays' Rebellion (1786–1787)...
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The Anti-Rent War (also known as the Helderberg War) was a tenants' revolt in upstate New York between 1839 and 1845. The Anti-Renters declared their independence...
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military forces which captured the chief Opechancanough and suppressed the revolt. Berkeley also had a royal monopoly of the important beaver fur trade, and...
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colonists and Crown officials, particularly given that it had followed the Boston Massacre in 1770. Crown officials in Rhode Island aimed to increase their...
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in Pennsylvania German, the Heesses-Wasser Uffschtand, was an armed tax revolt among Pennsylvania Dutch farmers between 1799 and 1800. It was the third...
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Stono Rebellion (section Events of the revolt)
Rebellion (also known as Cato's Conspiracy or Cato's Rebellion) was a slave revolt that began on 9 September 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was...
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Massachusetts 1689 Boston revolt Boston bread riot (1710–1713) Knowles Riot (1747) Liberty affair (1768) Boston Massacre (1770) Shays' Rebellion (1786–1787)...
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John Hancock (category Boston Latin School alumni)
profitable mercantile business from his uncle. He began his political career in Boston as a protégé of Samuel Adams, an influential local politician, though the...
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and Times of Frederick Douglass: Written by himself (New, revised ed.). Boston: De Wolfe & Fiske Co. Malin, James C. (August 1953). "Judge Lecompte and...
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northeast. The Rose was stationed near Boston until 1689; it was anchored offshore during the 1689 Boston revolt, an uprising of Massachusetts Puritans...
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possesses a fragment of it.) Andros was overthrown in Boston two years later in the 1689 Boston revolt, and the Dominion of New England was dissolved. The...
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Northern states arrived with assistance from benevolent societies such as the Boston-based New England Emigrant Aid Company, founded shortly before passage of...
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poetical satire of the events, which was published without attribution in Boston by Justin Jones in 1842. It was republished in 1870, again without attribution...
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Timeline of the American Revolution (section 1689)
event (June 18) Charter arrives in Boston establishing the Dominion of New England in America (May 14) 1689 Boston revolt, Leaders of the former Massachusetts...
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authoritarian and turbulent, which caused him to be overthrown in the 1689 Boston revolt. Bullivant, who had played a "conspicuous" part during his administration...
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1811 German Coast uprising (redirect from German Coast Revolt)
The 1811 German Coast uprising was a revolt of slaves in parts of the Territory of Orleans on January 8–10, 1811. The uprising occurred on the east bank...
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