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Fries's Rebellion: 1799–1800 Rebel farmers Armed tax revolt among Pennsylvania Dutch farmers. Thirty men went on trial in Federal court. [10] State of Muskogee: 1799–1803 Florida: William Augustus Bowles, various tribes of Southeastern Native Americans: Bowles attempted to unite all the Native Americans to form a single country. [11]
The 1689 Boston revolt was a popular uprising on April 18, 1689, against the rule of Sir Edmund Andros, the governor of the Dominion of New England.A well-organized "mob" of provincial militia and citizens formed in the town of Boston, the capital of the dominion, and arrested dominion officials.
The Green Corn Rebellion was an armed uprising that took place in rural Oklahoma on August 2 and 3, 1917. The uprising was a reaction by European-Americans , tenant farmers , Seminoles , Muscogee Creeks , and African-Americans to an attempt to enforce the Selective Draft Act of 1917 . [ 1 ]
Ten-hour day for federal employees on federal public works projects without loss of pay established by President Martin Van Buren by executive order. [6] [10] 1842 (United States) Ten-hour Republican Association was formed by New England mechanics to pressure the Massachusetts legislature to establish a ten-hour workday throughout the state. [11]
Protests in rural Massachusetts turned into direct action in August 1786 after the state legislature adjourned without considering the many petitions that had been sent to Boston. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] On August 29, a well-organized force of protestors formed in Northampton and successfully prevented the county court from sitting. [ 26 ]
New Hampshire was temporarily left without formal government, and came under de facto rule by Massachusetts Governor Simon Bradstreet. [54] News of the Boston revolt reached New York by April 26, but Lieutenant Governor Nicholson did not take any immediate action. [55] Andros managed to send a message to Nicholson while in captivity.
The unrest culminated in Shays' Rebellion in the winter of 1786–1787, in which protests against the handling of debts in Massachusetts led to an armed uprising. [55] The states declined to fund a military force, and Massachusetts was forced to fund its own state force. [ 56 ]
Massachusetts farmers were motivated in part by increased taxes and heavy-handed tax enforcement when they rose up in Shays' Rebellion. [19]: 9–34 They took action against government agencies that were enforcing tax seizures, preventing their operation, until the suppression of the rebellion. [19]: 43,56