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    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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    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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    place in the aftermath of England's Glorious Revolution and the 1689 Boston revolt in the Dominion of New England, which had included New York. The rebellion...
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  • gov. Retrieved 2022-12-22. Landrigan, Leslie (2014-04-18). "The Great Boston Revolt of 1689". New England Historical Society. Retrieved 2022-12-22. Webb...
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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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    as flag of the Dominion of New England. Flown over Boston from 1686–1689 until the Boston Revolt. A flag (and ensign) of New England, used by merchant...
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    Americans, killed between 55 and 65 white people, making it the deadliest slave revolt for the latter racial group in U.S. history. The rebellion was effectively...
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      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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    April 18, 1689, he was overthrown due to a brief revolt. The Dominion was not reestablished. Boston's first circulating library was established in 1756...
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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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    out of town on horseback. This incident is credited with inspiring the Boston Tea Party, which significantly contributed to the start of the American...
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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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  • Rebellion, Culpeper's Rebellion, the Charter Oak Incident, and the Boston Revolt. New Hampshire had recently been partitioned from Massachusetts by Charles...
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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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    Nelson, a resident of Long Island in Boston Harbor, was one of a number of prominent Bostonians leading a revolt against Governor Sir Edmund Andros. Andros...
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  • 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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    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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  • Thumbnail for Know-Nothing Riots in United States politics
    Know-Nothing Party in Massachusetts: The Rise and Fall of a People's Movement. Boston: Northeastern UP, 1990. excerpt Ramet, Sabrina P., and Christine M. Hassenstab...
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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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    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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