History of the United States I / Unit 4 USH1 0463 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Glorious Revolution
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The idea
The Whig party worked to depose James, and in late sixteen eighty-eight succeeded. James fled to the court of Louis the Fourteenth, and William of Orange and Mary took the throne.
In practice
Boston citizens overthrowing the Dominion in sixteen eighty-nine and imprisoning Andros.
Where people slip
Jacob Leisler led Protestant New Yorkers, assumed the role of King William's governor, and was executed for treason.
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