Sir Edmund Andros unpopular measures:
1. Andros levied taxes;
2. He suppressed town governments;
3. HE enforced the Navigation Acts, and punished smugglers.
After the death of King Charles II in 1685, he was succeeded by his brother, the Duke of York. He was interested in tighter regulatory controls in his colonies and to achieve the goals he consolidated the New England colonies into a single royal colony called the Dominion of New England that would threaten the authority of Puritanism and abolish elected assemblies. The Dominion was to have a government named by royal authority; a governor and council would rule without any legislative assembly. In 1686 the newly appointed royal governor, the authoritarian Sir Edmund Andros, arrived in Boston to take control of the new Dominion of New England. The Dominion of New England was scarcely established before the Glorious Revolution erupted in England in 1688. When news reached Boston that James II had fled to France and that William was the new king of England, the city staged its own bloodless revolution. Merchants, ministers, and militias (citizen soldiers) mobilized to arrest the hated Governor Andros and his aides, seize a royal ship in Boston harbor, and remove Massachusetts from the hated Dominion.
