Fries's Rebellion

Examples of Fries's Rebellion in the following topics:

• Domestic Turmoil During the Adams Presidency

  • Marshal began arresting people for tax resistance in Northampton, including Fries and the other leaders of the rebellion.
  • The Fries's Rebellion had lasting effects, however.

• Gabriel's Rebellion

  • Gabriel's Rebellion was a planned slave revolt in Virginia in 1800 that was quelled before it could begin.
  • Numerous black slave rebellions and insurrections took place in North America during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
  • After plans for the rebellion were quelled, many slave holders greatly restricted the slaves' rights of travel.
  • For many southern white slave owners, Gabriel's Rebellion proved that slaves would tend toward rebellion and resistance if not kept forcibly contained and controlled.
  • For many slaves and free African Americans, the rebellion proved the power of strategic organization and resistance.

• Shay's Rebellion: 1786-1787

  • Shays' Rebellion (1786-7) against economic oppression challenged federal authority and partly affected the new Constitution being drafted.
  • Shays' Rebellion was an armed uprising in central and western Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787.
  • The rebellion was named after Daniel Shays, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War and one of the rebel leaders.
  • The rebellion was precipitated by several economic factors beginning in 1785 when the states attempted to solve their debt problems.
  • Examine the impact of Shay’s Rebellion on the political debate during the Constitutional Convention

• Pursuing Both War and Peace

  • The petition was rejected, and in August 1775, A Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition (or the Proclamation of Rebellion) formally declared that the colonies were in rebellion.
  • The Proclamation of Rebellion was written before the Olive Branch Petition reached the British.
  • In August 1775, upon learning of the Battle of Bunker Hill, King George III issued a Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition.
  • On October 26, 1775, King George III expanded on the Proclamation of Rebellion in his Speech from the Throne at the opening of Parliament.
  • The Proclamation of Rebellion was King George III's response to the Olive Branch Petition.

• Nat Turner's Rebellion

  • Nat Turner's Rebellion (also known as the Southampton Insurrection) was the era's largest slave insurrection.
  • Nat Turner's Rebellion (also known as the Southampton Insurrection) was a slave rebellion that took place in Southampton County, Virginia during August 1831.
  • The rebellion was put down within a few days, but Turner survived in hiding for over two months afterward.
  • Turner took this as the final signal, and began the rebellion a week later on August 21.
  • Evaluate the effect of Nat Turner’s rebellion in the southern black community

• Early Opposition to Slavery

  • The early 1800's witnessed attempted large-scale slave rebellions, including those planned by Gabriel Prosser.
  • Gabriel Prosser was a literate enslaved blacksmith who planned a large slave rebellion in the Richmond area in the summer of 1800.
  • On August 30, 1800, Gabriel intended to lead slaves into Richmond, but the rebellion was postponed because of rain.
  • After the rebellion, many slaveholders greatly restricted the slaves' rights of travel when not working.
  • Prior to the rebellion, Virginia law had allowed education of slaves to read and write, and the training of slaves in skilled trades.

• Pontiac's Uprising

  • British expansion into American Indian land after the French and Indian War led to resistance in the form of Pontiac's Rebellion in 1763.
  • The most organized resistance, Pontiac’s Rebellion, highlighted tensions the settler-invaders increasingly interpreted in racial terms.
  • Despite previous rumors of war, Pontiac's Rebellion began in 1763.
  • While the rebellion was decentralized at first, this fear of being surrounded helped the rebellion to grow.
  • The total loss of life resulting from Pontiac's Rebellion is unknown.

• Bacon's Rebellion

  • Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising in Virginia in 1676 against the colonial Governor's friendly policies toward Native Americans.
  • Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony in North America, led by a 29-year-old planter, Nathaniel Bacon .
  • John Ingram took over leadership of the rebellion, but many followers drifted away.

• Anti-Slavery Resistance Movements

  • Numerous black slave rebellions and insurrections took place in North America from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.
  • Numerous black slave rebellions and insurrections took place in North America during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries.
  • Aptheker stressed how rebellions were rooted in the exploitative conditions of the Southern slave system.
  • Slavery rebellions in the United States began even before the United States became its own country.
  • Turner's 1831 rebellion was considered by some to be the largest slave revolt in the history of the southern United States, involving up to 75 slaves.

• The Whiskey Rebellion

  • The Whiskey Rebellion (1791-1794), a tax protest, was a defining moment of federal triumph over civil unrest and protest.
  • The Whiskey Rebellion, or Whiskey Insurrection, was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington that directly challenged the federal government's right to levy taxes.
  • On August 7, Washington issued a presidential proclamation announcing, with "the deepest regret", that the militia would be called out to suppress the rebellion .
  • The insurrection collapsed as the army marched into western Pennsylvania in October 1794, with most of the rebellion's leaders either fleeing or being captured.
  • George Washington and his troops near Fort Cumberland, Maryland, before their march to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.