Dominion rule has triggered bitter resentment throughout…

1689 CE

Dominion rule has triggered bitter resentment throughout New England; the enforcement of the unpopular Navigation Acts and the curtailing of local democracy has angered the colonists.

New Englanders are encouraged, however, by a change of government in England that had seen James II effectively abdicate, and a populist uprising overthrows Dominion rule on April 18, 1689.

Colonial governments reassert their control in the wake of the revolt, and successive governments will make no more attempts to restore the Dominion.

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Massachusetts Bay Colony (sometimes called the Massachusetts Bay Company, for its founding institution) View → Rhode Island (English Colony) View → Connecticut (English Crown Colony) View → Delaware Bay, Lower Counties on the (English Colony) View → New York, Province of (English Colony) View → East Jersey (English Colony) View → West Jersey (English Colony) View → New England, Dominion of View → England, (Orange and Stewart) Kingdom of View →

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Colonization of the Americas, English View →

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