Taiping Rebellion

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…

The Boxer Rebellion began in 1898 in the Qing Dynasty of China. During this rebellion there was an ongoing question of which side was fighting for the more “just” outcome because each had a very different opinion of what justice was. The Boxers were fighting against the British invaders and trying to unify China by ridding it of Christian influence. The foreigners were trying to make money by selling opium to the Chinese. Each side thought the other side is evil but they did not try to…

The Bacon’s Rebellion Bacon’s rebellion is a revolution that occurred in Virginia, which started in the year 1676. Nathaniel Bacon was the leader of this revolution who was born in England. Since he was very troublesome, his father sent him to Virginia from England with an expectation that he would mature and have a better life. During that time, William Berkeley was the governor of Virginia and also happened to be bacon’s cousin. The governor, Berkeley, treated Bacon with respect by giving…

Have you ever imagined of a life where your every move is controlled and there are no choices? In a futuristic world, people are forced to live in a mansion and treated as slaves. In Wither, by Lauren Destefano, a virus is spreading to young men who are turning 25 and women who are turning 20. Rhine is a teenage girl who is kidnapped by a scientist named Vaughn, and she’s given to his son as a wife. His son, Linden, has three wives already. Rhine is forced to marry Linden and is trapped within…

Introduction On September 2, 1885, a league of bitter white coal miners and their families took guns and axes to attack the local Chinatown, the immigrant workers living there defenseless as they were celebrating a homeland holiday. An estimated over thirty men killed, many more injured, the five hundred Chinese living there fled from the Union Pacific Railroad, where they worked for far lower wages than their white peers in hopes of gathering enough fortune to provide for their families back…

The Bacon's Rebellion was about a group of slaves that gained there freedom by working for slavery for 5 to 7 years and when they were free they seek land, however they were unable to because of the Indian's would not allow them to share the land, therefore when the issue was addressed they were rejected due to the Governor Berkley had a secret trade agreement with the Indians. However these events caused a rebellion against the Indians, because once again this was another fight for the…

Nathaniel Bacon led one of the most memorable uprisings in history. As a 29-year-old, he led a thousand Virginians to rebel against Virginia Governor William Berkeley. There were many tensions that led to the rebellion, many people who were included in the rebellion, and a few long term consequences of the rebellion’s failure. During the 17th century, many new settlers and indentured servants came to Virginia, which eventually caused tension between white freed men, indentured servants, and the…

Documenting and Interpreting a Southern Slave Revolt The Stono Revolt is a slave rebellion that took place in South Carolina during the mid-1700s. The rebellion is notable because it was one of the largest slave rebellions that took place in early America. However, the revolt took place at a time when history was still in the making. Scholars did not have modern technology to perfectly capture all of the events that took place. Instead, different people documented events that they saw or heard…

China’s Rural Crisis: The Fall of Power The Qing dynasty ended in 1912 with a revolution; however, it had been declining for more than a century before it falls. Corruptions within the empire, population growth combined with food shortages, and the social unrest between the ethnic majority Han and the ruling Machus all contributed to Qing’s downfall. However, despite all of these internal issues, it was external pressures that caused the eventual collapse of the Qing society. Foreign…

Qing government. One of the most important factors for this rebellion was arguably the western religious influence in china. The rebells as the western called the rebels the boxers because they performed physical that the rebels / boxers believe can make them withstand to bullets, the rebels killed chinese chritians and destroy foreign property. Even though the boxer rebellion did not really change the chinese political in a…