What are some of the GREAT American rebellions?

Question

The rebellions can be an individual person that rebelled, a group of people or a rebellious event.

Answer 1

LOTS of possibilities, esp. if you allow rebellions, revolts, violent strikes, etc.

Starting with the early years of the Republic:

* Shays Rebellion in Massachusetts (1786-87)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shays%27_Rebellion

* Whiskey Rebellion -Western Pennsylvania (1799)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion

SLAVE Revolts -- many small ones, but here are some of the larger and/or more famous ones:

- Gabriel's Rebellion (1800)
- Chatham Manor Rebellion (1805)
- Louisiana Territory Slave Rebellion, led by Charles Deslandes (1811)
- George Boxley Rebellion (1815)
- Fort Blount Revolt (1816)
- Denmark Vesey's Uprising (1822)
- Nat Turner's slave rebellion (1831)
- Black Seminole Slave Rebellion (1835-1838)
- Amistad Seizure (1839) [though not carrried out by Americans]
- John Brown raids Harpers Ferry, Virginia (1859)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_rebellion#List_of_North_American_slave_revolts
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/DIASPORA/REBEL.HTM
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9068167/slave-rebellions

*Texans Revolution against Mexico - 1835-36 ("Alamo" etc)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Revolution

*American Civil War

* New York draft riots (1863)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Draft_Riots

* The Agrarian Revolt" of the 1890s - related to the Populist movement
http://www.amazon.com/Populist-Moment-History-Agrarian-America/dp/0195024176


LABOR STRIKES, RIOTS, etc. . . esp. 1870s to 1920s

Haymarket Riot, Chicago (1886)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_Riot

Homestead Strike (1892)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_Strike

Pullman Stirke (1894)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullman_Strike


See list of various events in labor history, including major strikes. . .
http://www.lutins.org/labor.html

This page lists a number of BOOKS on "Armed Revolts" - some listed above, some not, from the American Revolution to the 1960s
http://www.whistlestopper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=8590

Answer 2

The whiskey rebellion, President Washington raised the tax on whiskey to about 25% so the guys down at the local pub got mad and trashed peoples houses where there were people paid the tax. Old George ends up having to send 13,000 troops to stop these guys.

Answer 3

As on your Jefferson argument, procuring land for individuals is a real investment for each guy or woman, no longer merely money thrown around for specific hobbies. It additionally opened the door for us to declare something of the west for loose. And Lincoln refused to allow the user-friendly human rights of a team of human beings to be taken away by making use of yet another. it is the region of government to guard rights. Reagan have been given himself caught in an hands race. It became nonetheless defense force and honestly became incorrect yet I wager you will come across one undesirable conservative coverage approximately each and every liberal president. 1837 would have merely of honestly been blamed on the 2nd nationwide economic enterprise. It became a great advance of money furnish accompanied by making use of a great contraction, that's frequently the consequence of undesirable critical banking (eg great melancholy, Nineteen Eighteen Eighties, on the instant), no longer a loss of critical banking. some economists say that Jefferson's strikes helped the doomed subject. In end, get a existence.

Answer 4

1860's.
The Southern States when they tried to leave the Union.
Good 'ol Johnny-Reb.