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Rebellions
Rebellions and Violence Review for Midterm
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Bloody slave uprising in Virginia, 1831; the leader thought he was God's instrument sent to free his people; led to tougher slave codes | Nat Turner's Rebellion |
| Frontier rebellion against the Virginian governor; burned Jamestown; led to more representation for western counties | Bacon's Rebellion |
| Indebted farmers in Massachusetts rebelled against taxes; signaled that the Articles of Confederation were too weak to last | Shay's Rebellion |
| Virginia slave who planned a revolt near Richmond in 1800; he and his followers were found and hanged | Gabriel Prosser |
| Indian uprising after the French and Indian War in Ohio River Valley; led to the Proclamation of 1763 | Pontiac's Rebellion |
| After James II was dethroned in Glorious Revolution, NY colonists rebelled against James' governor, Edmund Andros; Later, the leader was hung | Leisler's Rebellion |
| Mob of Pennsylvania frontiersmen who slaughtered Natives; Benjamin Franklin kept them from being hung | Paxton Boys |
| Bloodless coup that established William III and Mary II as rulers of England in exchange for increased rights for Parliament | Glorious Revolution |
| Slave rebellion in South Carolina in 1739; instigated by the governor of Spanish Florida; some slaves escaped to St. Augustine; later slaves escaped and killed some whites near this river; the uprising was forcibly put down and most of the rebels were kil | Stono Rebellion |
| Shawnee chief who united the tribes in the Northwestern territories against the settlers there; fought with the British in the War of 1812. His tribes were defeated by Willian Henry Harrison at Tippecanoe; he was later killed in the Battle of the Thames | Tecumseh |
| Mulatto who led a slave uprising in Charleston, SC; betrayed before the revolt started and he and his followers were hung | Denmark Vesey |
| Led a rebellion in Haiti against the French; his success led Napoleon to give up his dream of a new French empire in the Western Hemisphere | Toussaint L'Ouverture |
| Pennsylvania rebellion against Alexander Hamilton's excise tax; George Washington led army to put down the rebellion and show that the new government was strong enough to quiet rebellions | Whiskey Rebellion |
| Carolina frontiersmen who rebelled against the eastern colonial government which they thought was corrupt | Regulators |
| Bloody violence between New England settlers and the Wampanoag Indians; after the Indians were defeated, their territory was open for settlement | King Philip's (or Metacom's) War |
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