The Regulator Movement

The rebellion commenced in 1854, with Peter Lalor’s help. Around 25,000 people arrived from different nationalities to dig at the gold fields. Governor Hotham rose to leadership in June, setting up licence checks and more licence laws. A dispute between a Scottish digger and a group of men, led by James Bentley, was heard of which stirred thoughts of concern between the diggers. They decided to meet on October 17th to burn down Bentley’s hotel and receive justice.

Harvests failed to improve, winters were cold, and lots of rural areas of the country rose in rebellion against the Revolutionary government, meddlesome with the provision of food to the cities. several sans-culottes believed that farmers and merchants were deliberately taking advantage of the case by billboard grain to inflate costs. Angry mobs attacked marketplaces and drawn up hoarders to be dead. Angry mass

Last night on February 4, 1787, General Benjamin Lincoln attacked members of the Shays’ Rebellion, and successfully captured 150 of the rebels. As a result, Daniel Shays left Massachusetts and fled to Vermont. Shays Rebellion was an armed rebellion consisting of 1,200 angry farmers from Massachusetts. They caused major chaos in this state. On December 26, 1786 Daniel Shays and the rebels revolted in Springfield, Massachusetts insisting that the state legislature address their issues, such as lack of money.

Farmers in the Shay’s Rebellion were treated unfairly . Although the farmers in Shay’s Rebellion were considered reckless rebels, nevertheless they should be recognized as freedom fighters because they fought for things to be fair, they protested for people’s rights to be better, and they fought for what they thought was right. First of all, the farmers fought for things to be fair because many things were not fair to them and to others . According to class notes, “Farmers were losing land and going to jail,” this shows that they were treated unfairly and they were getting punished for doing nothing.

But, those men were solely out for blood. They knew who they were dealing with when they saw the Moravians picking corn that day, and they knew that the Moravians were peaceful, but they did not care. In fact, when the men came to murder the Moravians, the Indians submitted to them because they had no reason not to do so. They were allies with the colonists and they had always dealt peacefully with them. But, the militia wanted revenge, and even though the Moravians had no part in killing the colonists, the militia considered every Indian, even innocent ones, deserving of torturous

The Regulators, like the Sons of Liberty fought the corruption of the government during the years that lead up to the American Revolution. However, unlike the Sons of Liberty, the Regulators did not use violence to get their points across. They resorted to removing corrupt government officials and electing their own leaders into office. From the very beginning, the Piedmont backcountry farmers from North Carolina suffered enormous opposition from the wealthy elites, as well as the Governor of North Carolina himself. It seemed that Governor William Tryon made it his goal in life to disband the Regulators, and in the end he was successful.

On January 25, 1787, Daniel Shays led an army, consisting of farmers and veterans, to capture an arsenal in Boston. The purpose of this attack was to gear up and to stand up against the government. All these men in this army shared one common goal, to end the unfair taxes that were oppressing the middle class. When Shays’ army reached the arsenal, they were met by Shepard’s army that numbered 1,200 men. They moved closer and closer, despite the fact warning shots were fired and when the two armies reached face to face, Shephard’s army fired cannons into the middle of the rebellion and Shays’ small army broke ranks and ran away.

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 Bannock tribe was a huge and important tribe with rich history and culture until the building of Fort Hall when the white settlers came, and that eventually led to their destruction. The history and the traditions of the Bannock tribe, which is where they were located, the food they ate, and the games they played like the relay races, is a huge part of who they are today. The Bannock’s lands were located in what is now known as Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, and into Canada. Another part of the Bannock tribe was its neighbors the Shoshone tribe.

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.

Both these rebellions took place because the government was over taxing the poor people. The farmers had no other choice but to start a rebellion or end up in prison. Most of the farmers didn't just choose not to pay the taxes they couldn't afford to. They weren't trying to stick it to the government they didn't have a choice it was either fight or loose their family. In Shays rebellion the poor farmers charge the courthouse trying to take a stance against the high taxes.

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 French and Indian War left England with a debt of £130,000,000. To help pay off the debt Britain set up taxes, to collect money, on frequently used products by the colonists. The Molasses Act put a six pence tax on every gallon of molasses. The colonists thought this was a lot of money to pay so they did everything to avoid it. This act was not really enforced and the colonists did not really obey this act.

Around the time of these protests Americans were beginning to realize their rights as citizens and what their ideal government looked like. Settlers of the backcountry were rebelling against the federalists, attempting to acquire more representation in the government. The people of the backcountry were becoming more oppressed as Alexander Hamilton began to attempt to improve America’s economy with manufacturing and revenue taxes. The backcountry settlers organized violent protests, three of these rebellions being Shays’ Rebellion, Whiskey Rebellion, and March of the Paxton Boys.