Top 10 Rebellions and Protests

ByNathaniel Schermerhorn

Bacon’s Rebellion

• 1676• Virginia Colony• Nathaniel Bacon• Native Americans

Boston Tea Party

• 1773• Britain taxing the

colonists• American

Revolution

Shay’s Rebellion

• Late 1780s• Daniel Shay• Western

Massachusetts• Farmers angered

by unfair taxes

John Brown’s Raid

• 1859• Abolitionist• Harper’s Ferry• End Slavery

Homestead Strike

• 1892• Labor Strike• Carnegie Steel

Company

Bonus Army

• 1932• Farmer’s Holiday

Association• Herbert Hoover• World War I

Veterans

Little Rock Nine

• 1957• Little Rock,

Arkansas• Segregation in

schools• Ernest Green

Selma March

• 1965• Three Marches• Bloody Sunday

Kent State

• 1970• Nixon• Kent State, Ohio• Vietnam War

Tax Revolt

• 1978• Proposition 13• Howard Jarvis• Property Tax