The Regulator Movement

Settlers in the Western parts of the Unites States during the eighteenth century, sometimes looked to violent protest to express their grievances of political, economic, and social issues. The March of the Paxon Boys, Regulator Movement, Shay’s Rebellion, and The Whiskey Rebellion were all examples of settlers expressing their grievances. The Paxton Boys were frontiersmen of Scots-Irish origin from along the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania. They formed a group to retaliate in 1763 against local American Indians in the aftermath of the French and Indian War and Pontiac's Rebellion. However, this group of men were racial and had political unrest during this time.

Another violent protest was the March of the Paxton boys which took place in 1763 in Pennsylvania. Paxton was located in eastern Pennsylvania, near the area where Pontiac’s

Daniel Shays led a rebellion after the U.S. went into economic depression. This caused the Massachusetts government to seize several farms and sell them to re-gain profits. Shays led a mob of 1,000 enraged Massachusetts farmers to get weaponry from a state warehouse in August 1786. The rebellion was a fail because Shays and other fellow comrades were arrested. All in all, Daniel Shays led a rebellion because many farmers plots of land were taken and sold for profit.

Shay’s Rebellion “What country before ever existed without a rebellion?” a quote from Jefferson in document C. Throughout the history of the United States many conflicts and protests have occurred. One of these was Shay’s rebellion and it was caused by the government not paying war veterans their money after fighting in the war. This made the protesters threaten the court that they are going to raid the armory and many people consider them rebels for this. Although many people thought the farmers or war veterans were rebels, nevertheless they are truly freedom fighters because they stood up for what was right, kept the government aware of needs, and were not treated fairly.

It states in the flow map of class notes that “ Many were veterans who were never paid.” Therefore, it shows that many farmers from Shay’s

To begin with, Shay would not peacefully protest, but instead he would use violence to be heard. According to Abigail Adams in Document B, Shay and other farmers started ¨riots in my home state.¨ (Document B, Abigail Adams) Abigail had lived in Massachusetts during the time of Shayś Rebellion, and she could see firsthand the riots the farmers had caused with their riots, and the aftermath of that display of violence. She would then go on to say that the protesting had one on to such a degree that the courts have been shut down in several countries.¨

Because of the weakness of the Articles of the Constitutional, there were lots of dissatisfaction in public. Lots of farmers took part in the Independence war, but after the war, their life didn’t have changed well; oppositely, they had to pay lots of taxation which were almost one third of their income. At the same time,the economy of the United States in a less developed area. In this dilemma, Daniel Shays, a retired soldier who wined lots of honors,but was treated unfairly, led farmer raise revolution in government.

BAby thesis!!!! Shays’ Rebellion was caused by the weakened national government. The Articles of Confederation did not have a strong national government therefore the yeoman farmers were in a lot of debt because of the post war recession. Since the yeoman farmers were unable to pay the debt the creditors took away the property the farmers owned. Shays’ Rebellion greatly alarmed politicians throughout the nation about the Articles.

It was affecting the farmers the most in that they were going into debt quickly and they would be imprisoned if they could not pay off their debts, also the large tax they had to pay. In the month of February there was a rebellion against the court to change and handle these problems. Shays was a leader of one of the militias, but not the leader of all the groups. The leaders were sentenced to death, but Shays made a petition and they got pardoned. Through these actions is what made the government replace the Articles of Confederation and create a strong national

Not only had the population grown numerically, but America was now a melting pot of many cultures. In particular, the Scots-Irish was one group that left a significant impact. They led the Paxton Boys on their march on Philadelphia, to protest against the Quakers ' peaceful relations towards the Indians. In addition, the Regulator movement protested the unbalanced power that favored the Eastern North Carolinians. Passed by Britain, the Molasses Act attempted to restrict American international trade but the colonists proved that they wouldn 't blindly accept these restrictions anymore.

Most of their war was peaceful, yet the Regulators did resort to violence on occasion. In 1770 in response to having their peaceful request ignored, they forcefully entered the Hillsborough Supreme Court where they attacked lawyers, threw the judge off the bench, and proceeded to have a court session of their own. Governor Tryon then passed the Johnston Riot Act, in an attempt to subdue the regulators from making another march to Hillsborough, which allowed for military intervention in the case of a riot. Regulators eventually encountered a military force on their way to Hillsborough at Alamance Creek where the trained troops overpowered the under matched rebels. The Regulator movement was over, but their mentality towards freedom carried over to the provincial congress and later the state

Nevertheless, a protest and unsuccessful strike of ‘Lowell Mill Girls’ in 1834 find a prominent place in the history of labor movement in the United States. Labor movements are also credited for their contribution to civil liberties. As per ACLU website, “Collective action is often necessary to protect individual rights. Unions by their nature facilitate and enhance the exercise of core civil liberties, such as the right of association, speech, and petition.” ACLU website further says that collective bargaining statutes take into account the economic reality that individual workers typically lack the bargaining power to stand up meaningfully for their individual

The Texas tea party had come into founding after 9/11/2001, when the patriotism of our country was at an all-time high. It said that many people still debate on who actually formed the tea party, since the birth of the tea party still remains a mystery. Many have come forward to obtain credit for this movement, but the different versions of the movement have led to no conclusion. The history of the modern tea party movement has been short, but remains active till this day.

The abolition movement can be traced back to early colonial times. One of the earliest to protest the slave trade was the religious group, the Quakers. The Quakers fought hard to abolish slavery because it went against their religious belief in equality. In 1868, a group of Quakers ventured to Germantown, Pennsylvania to petition “the traffick of men-body.” The Quakers also played a

This movement was led by the author of the Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison. He created “The Liberator” as his way of spreading anti-slavery. By 1820, this had caused an uprising of the southerners. The southerners began to violently protest. Another important individual of the anti-slavery movement was Harriet Tubman.