All referring to colonial or early American events.
Since our Civil War, the greatest of all Rebellions, there have been quite a few race riots. Befoe WWII almost entirely attacks by whites on blacks, since WWII almost entirely attacks by blacks on their own neighborhoods with some unfortunate whites caught up in them.
AFAIK, all these events, white and black, have been called riots, because that's what they were.
Notice that he defines rebellion as resistance to control. Before the war broke out, the
Southern states legally disbanded federal control and replaced with state control to which the people gave the right of governance.
When Lincoln ordered invasions of Pensacola and Charleston, the South defended its property.........nothing resembling rebellion.
The federal political class and the media used the idea of rebellion to incite the masses to invade a duly constituted republic..