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    Slave Rebellions

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    owners? The severe actions of slave owners towards their slaves led to several revolts and rebellions. Of all the slave revolts‚ one of the most notorious and successful was the Nat Turner Slave Rebellion of 1831. Before the Civil War‚ an abundant amount of slaves lived a life with harsh labor and treatment. The living conditions of slaves resulted in several revolts against slave owners. All the slave rebellions resulted in the capturing of the slaves and hanging them‚ or cruel punishments such as

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    Teen Rebellion

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    Teen Rebellion Teen rebellion is a problem that’s been around ever since teenagers have. Almost every teen goes through some sort of rebellious stage in or after the precious years of puberty. It’s a problem that’s caused by a number of attributes‚ the two main being teenage hormones and attitude. It’s a superiority syndrome that teens get to let the world "adults" know that their views and opinions are not to be reckoned with. And with such a stubborn mindset that teen rebellion comes with

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    The Tuareg Rebellion

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    The intensification of the rebellion was one of the consequences of the AFRICOM coordinated NATO intervention in Libya and the overthrow of the Gadhdhafi regime.[76] Gadhdhafi’s fall led many Tuareg who had been part of his security forces or who had been working in Libya to flee into

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    Kildare Rebellion

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    Both the Kildare rebellion of 1534 and the rebellion of the 1640s failed due to insufficient military support. If the rebels had acquired the military back-up they sought they may have initially prevailed‚ however‚ they would not have endured. The rebels would have been unable to sustain their aims due to the complex political circumstances during which they occurred. This essay discusses the events and aims of each rebellion‚ and attempts to illustrate how the rebels would have been unable to achieve

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    Bacons Rebellion

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    Bacons Rebellion was the first stirring of the revolutionary sentiment in America. It began in Jamestown Virginia in 1676. It was a short rebellion between two stubborn men wanting all the power in the world‚ or just Jamestown. Due to economics‚ environmental‚ and social struggles the rebellion got further out of hand than it should have and did not really solve much‚ other than a few issues. Bacons rebellion was not truly a fight against tyranny but a dispute between two stubborn selfish leaders

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    Shays Rebellion

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    Shays’ Rebellion was an armed uprising that took place in central and western Massachusetts in 1786 and 1787. The rebellion was named after Daniel Shays‚ a veteran of the American Revolutionary War and one of the rebel leaders. The rebellion started on August 29‚ 1786. It was precipitated by several factors: financial difficulties brought about by a post-war economic depression‚ a credit squeeze caused by a lack of hard currency‚ and fiscally harsh government policies instituted in 1785 to solve

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    The Hippie Rebellion

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    The Hippie Rebellion There are many subcultures in our history that resulted from a variety of sources. One of the biggest rebellions came from the “Hippie Generation.” The sons and daughters of the Baby Boom era push themselves away from their ancestors‚ who rejected them for an alternative culture which was their own. (Huber‚ Lemieux‚ Hollis) The three key reasons are do to the change in music‚ the use of narcotics‚ and their anti-war beliefs. The change in music clearly set their generation

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    Boxer Rebellion

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    and Japan had forced China’s ruling Qing dynasty to accept wide foreign control over the country’s economic affairs. In the Opium Wars (1839-42‚ 1856-60)‚ popular rebellions and the Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)‚ China had fought to resist the foreigners‚ but it lacked a modernized military and suffered millions of casualties. Boxer Rebellion‚ officially supported peasant uprising of 1900 that attempted to drive all foreigners from China. “Boxers” was a name that foreigners gave to a Chinese secret society

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    The Sepoy Rebellion

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    Sepoy Rebellion began because of the British using pig and cow fat on the ammunition cartilages‚ which are both animals that are forbidden to be consumed in the Muslim and Hindu faith. The Sepoys‚ who were expected to ripe off the ammunition paper before loading their guns saw this as a clear form of disrespect towards their religious beliefs. Although the rebellion led to many deaths on both parts of the battle‚ the Indians turned out losing when the British managed to suppress the rebellion. Since

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    Leislers Rebellion

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    English troops arrived‚ and Leisler denied them entry‚ but then was soon arrested. • Many of the elite New Yorkers he arrested for questioning his authority convinced the New Governor to charge him with treason. Massachusetts’s Hostility Leisler’s Rebellion • English wanted to expand direct political control into the Americas • Replaced government positions with English Military officials. • Over-threw colonists’ established laws • New England‚ especially Massachusetts‚ resisted. • England punished

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