Armed Insurrections and Slave Revolts
See also: Slave rebellion, Tax revolt
- Gloucester County, Virginia Slave Rebellion (1663)
- Bacon's Rebellion (1676)
- Leisler's Rebellion (1689–91)
- Stono Rebellion (1739)
- Pontiac's Rebellion (1763–66)
- War of the Regulation (1764–71)
- Boston Tea Party (1773)
- American Revolutionary War (1775–83)
- Shays' Rebellion (1786)
- Whiskey Rebellion (1794)
- John Fries' Rebellion (1799–1800)
- Louisiana Territory Slave Rebellion (1811)
- Nat Turner's slave rebellion (1831)
- Buckshot War (1837–38)
- Patriot War (1837–38)
- Anti-Rent War (1839–44)
- Dorr Rebellion (1841–42)
- Taos Revolt (1847)
- Utah War (1857–58)
- John Brown's Raid on Federal Armory at Harper's Ferry (1859)
- American Civil War (1861–65)
- Green Corn Rebellion Oklahoma (1917)
- The Bonus March (1932)
- The Battle of Athens - also known as the McMinn County War. Uprising in Athens, Tennessee (1946)
- Jayuya Uprising - Puerto Rico (1950)
- Wounded Knee incident - Wounded Knee, South Dakota (1973)
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