1. Leisler's Rebellion
... of which, according to some historians, is America's unique two-party system. 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, Jacob Leisler was one of late seventeenth-century New York's most prominent ... merchants, land developers, and foremost exponent of Reformed religious fundamentalism and Orangist political ideology. He was intimately bound to the social, economic, and political development of ... British authority. Leisler's administra...
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