LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT IMPORTANT FIGURES IN THE FIGHT TO END SLAVERY
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the Whiskey Rebellion
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the Boston Tea Party
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Shays’ Rebellion
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the XYZ Affair
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Detailed explanation-1: -In our own nation, the Boston Tea Party represented a massive act of civil disobedience.” “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” Martin Luther King, Jr. to Fellow Clergymen. April 16, 1963.
Detailed explanation-2: -Thoreau declared that if the government required people to participate in injustice by obeying “unjust laws, ” then people should “break the laws” even if they ended up in prison.
Detailed explanation-3: -Civil disobedience is a form of protest that involves the willful refusal to comply with certain laws. While it is not protected by the First Amendment, nonviolent civil disobedience has often been effective in achieving social change, and it has a particularly rich history on campus.
Detailed explanation-4: -Henry David Thoreau’s 1849 essay ‘’Civil Disobedience” describes how Thoreau spent a night in jail for refusing to pay his poll tax as a way of protesting his opposition to the system of slavery in the United States and the government’s immoral spending on the Mexican-American War.