1. Leisler's Rebellion
... catapulted to fame in 1689 when, in the wake of England's Glorious Revolution, he assumed the role of King William III's governor of New York. He thereupon implemented a program based on direct popular representation that had, as contemporaries noted, wide impact from the Chesapeake to New England. The following year he called for and hosted English America's first intercolonial congress and ... Other historians see in Leisler's assumption of the New York government a forerunner of the American Revolution. Best known as a leader of a 1689 New York rebellion that came to bear his name, Ja...
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