Rebellions Word Scramble

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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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