Shays' Rebellion

You might be familiar with the word “Rebellion” since some kid’s movies have scenes in which rebels plot a rebellion against an evil kingdom. But do you know other versions of rebellions? A rebellion is usually not the same in every case nor in every story. In the passages, “Cairo: My City, My Revolution”, “Reading Lolita in Tehran”, and “Persepolis 2”, rebellion is presented in many forms and ways by the authors. To begin with, in the passage “Cairo: My City, My Revolution” the setting of the…

government, this is known as a revolt. For example, Nat Turner was a African American slave who started a revolt. He and his followers killed 60 white people including women, men, and children. During the Rebellion, 315 people died in total including slaves and people from the white descent. Rebellions are often caused to express your feelings toward something. In the reading, The Underground Railroad for Kids by Mary Cay Carson, it shows the Revolt that started with Nat Turner. I think that…

What is rebellion? The definition of rebellion is an action or process of resisting authority, control, or convention. In the civil rights movement, there are a lot of historical events that happen that shows people rebelling for a cause. For example Rosa Parks-New Spread and the Boycott of buses. For example in the book Red Rising when Eo and Darrow went up on the surface they got caught by the sliver Eo wanted Darrow to stand his ground. Like Rosa Parks Eo wanted to “break the changes”. The…

Whiskey Rebellion was an uprising of southwestern Pennsylvania distillers who were incensed by Hamilton’s excise of the exportation of whiskey two years earlier. Duties levied on alcohol considerably strained the commerce of backwoods communities where it represented the region’s major trade good, causing an outbreak of tarring-and-feathering revenue officers who attempted to collect the tax. Much like Shays’ Rebellion, Washington reacted with excessive force in response to a tiny rebellion of…

Both rebellions fought against the ill treatment of slaves on many plantations in Berbice and Demerara, but each had distinctive features that proved their short term success. One difference between the rebellions is that the Berbice 1763 Rebellion lasted for an entire year while the Demerara only lasted two days. Even though the 1823 Demerara slave rebellion estimated between 11,000 to 12,000 slaves from about fifty-five plantations participated in the revolt this did not aid in their success (…

procession. In the letter, Sheng was portrayed as a highly accomplished businessman that made an unmatched contribution to modernizing China’s industry, commerce, and education. His role in helping Shanghai avoiding the catastrophe of the Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901) found particular mention in the letter. To highlight Sheng’s…

“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I 've ever known.”- Chuck Palahniuk. Chuck Palahniuk states that our own identities are not only formed by ourselves, but also by the culture around us. Gene Luen Yang 's Boxers & Saints follows the lives of Bao and Four during the Boxer uprising in China, as they struggle to find their identities. The uprising forces Bao and Four to chose whom they identify with, their fellow countrymen or the foreigners and christians. Through…

The great nation of the United States of America has been shaped by rebellions and revolutions since it was first colonized in the late 17th century. It is the brave men and women who speak up for liberty that keep the American spirit and constitutional freedom alive. Although it was rebellion and a revolution that broke America free from its mother country, they are the principles she was founded upon that spark rebellion and revolution against herself. One such principle is that the…

One of the more controversial methods they used was violent resistance. Gabriel Prosser in Black Thunder organized an uprising which involved hundreds of slaves and even though his rebellion does not manage to be successful in the end it does show that African American did not simply succumb to their lot as slaves. Even before the planning of his uprising Prosser was exercising agency. The free black man in the story, Mingo would read…

In the seventeenth century Virginia saw an influx in the indentured servant population. These were typically young, white, and unmarried males who would work for about four to seven years in exchange for food, clothes, housing, etc. When their terms of service were terminated, these now freemen hoped to receive land ownership and some upward social mobility. Owning land meant that they could have a vote and in turn be a member of the society. By the 1670s, however, there was hardly any good,…