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To: uncbob

Maybe not burn but they do riot...

the Boston Tea Party - Dec 16, 1773

Also, Shay’s rebellion

Shays’ Rebellion was an armed uprising in Central and Western Massachusetts from 1786 to 1787. The rebels, led by Daniel Shays and known as Shaysites (Regulators), were mostly poor farmers angered by crushing debt and taxes. Failure to repay such debts often resulted in imprisonment in debtor’s prisons or the claiming of property by the state.

The rebellion started on August 29, 1786. A militia that had been raised as a private army defeated an attack on the federal Springfield Armory by the main Shaysite force on February 3, 1787. There was a lack of an institutional response to the uprising, which energized calls to reevaluate the Articles of Confederation and gave strong impetus to the Constitutional Convention which began in May 1787.


100 posted on 11/05/2008 7:37:06 PM PST by CatQuilt (Lover of cats =^..^= and quilts)
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To: CatQuilt

All that was in the nation’s infancy when we were still growing

We didn’t become an international power till the Spanish American war

Last time the white people used violence etc was during the union organizing in the 30s BEFORE Socialism took hold and sapped our will


193 posted on 11/06/2008 5:12:24 AM PST by uncbob
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