USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -James placed the colonies from southern Maine to New Jersey under one large colony called the Dominion of New England. The king made Sir Edmund Andros the new royal governor of the Dominion.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Dominion of New England from 1686 to 1689 was a province created by combining the British colonies in North America which included present-day Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, and starting 7 May 1688 New Jersey, and New York.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Dominion of New England was a union of several New England colonies formed by King James II of England in 1686 and was part of a larger plan to tighten British administration of the colonies.

Detailed explanation-4: -New England includes the U.S. states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

Detailed explanation-5: -Sir Edmund Andros, (born Dec. 6, 1637, London, Eng.-died Feb. 24, 1714, London), English administrator in North America who made an abortive attempt to stem growing colonial independence by imposing a kind of supercolony, the Dominion of New England.