<P> After the Glorious Revolution in 1689, Bostonians overthrew royal governor Sir Edmund Andros . They seized dominion officials and adherents to the Church of England during a popular and bloodless uprising . These tensions eventually culminated in the American Revolution, boiling over with the outbreak of the War of American Independence in 1775 . The first battles of the war were fought in Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts, later leading to the Siege of Boston by continental troops . In March 1776, British forces were compelled to retreat from Boston . </P> <P> After the dissolution of the Dominion of New England, the colonies of New England ceased to function as a unified political unit but remained a defined cultural region . By 1784, all of the states in the region had taken steps towards the abolition of slavery, with Vermont and Massachusetts introducing total abolition in 1777 and 1783, respectively . The nickname "Yankeeland" was sometimes used to denote the New England area, especially among Southerners and the British . </P> <P> Vermont was admitted to statehood in 1791 after settling a dispute with New York . The territory of Maine had been a part of Massachusetts, but it was granted statehood on March 15, 1820 as part of the Missouri Compromise . Today, New England is defined as the six states of Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut . </P> <P> New England's economic growth relied heavily on trade with the British Empire, and the region's merchants and politicians strongly opposed trade restrictions . As the United States and the United Kingdom fought the War of 1812, New England Federalists organized the Hartford Convention in the winter of 1814 to discuss the region's grievances concerning the war, and to propose changes to the Constitution to protect the region's interests and maintain its political power . Radical delegates within the convention proposed the region's secession from the United States, but they were outnumbered by moderates who opposed the idea . </P>

Which two new england states were not part of the original colonies