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riot
Hunting the indiscriminate following of any scent by hounds

Riot
Attica
city in New York housing state prison; one of the worst prison riots in American history occurred there (1971). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 182]
Birmingham riots
melee resulting from civil rights demonstrations (1963). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 585–586]
Boston Massacre
civil uprising fueled revolutionary spirit (1770). [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 57]
Boston Tea Party
colonists rioted against tea tax (1773). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 341]
Chicago riots
“police riot” arguably cost Democrats election (1968). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 625]
Donnybrook Fair
former annual Dublin county fair; famous for rioting and dissipation. [Irish Hist.: NCE, 784]
Germinal
conflict of capital vs. labor: miners strike en masse. [Fr. Lit.: Germinal]
Gordon, Lord George
leader of the anti-Catholic riots of 1780, in which the idiot Barnaby is caught up. [Br. Lit.: Dickens Barnaby Rudge]
Haymarket Riot
Chicago labor dispute erupted into mob scene (1886). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 297]
Kent State
Ohio university where antiwar demonstration led to riot, resulting in deaths of four students (1971). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 1466]
Little Rock
capital of Arkansas; federal troops sent there to enforce ruling against segregation (1957). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 1594]
Luddites
British workers riot to destroy labor-saving machines (1811–1816). [Br. Hist.: NCE, 1626]
Molly Maguires
antilandlord organization; used any means to combat mine owners (1860s, 1870s). [Am. Hist.: Van Doren, 272]
New York Draft Riots
anticonscription feelings resulted in anarchy and bloodshed (1863). [Am. Hist.: Jameson, 429]
Riot Act
the reading it to unruly crowds, sheriffs under George I could force them to disperse or be jailed. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 767]
Shays’ Rebellion
armed insurrection by Massachusetts farmers against the state government (1786). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2495]
Watts
district in Los Angeles where black Americans rioted over economic deprivation and social injustices (1965). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 1612–1613]
Whiskey Rebellion
uprising in Pennsylvania over high tax on whiskey and scotch products (1794). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2967]


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Pfeifer, a professor of American history at the University of Western Ontario, adds a telling footnote to lynching scholarship when he discusses the concept of rough justice, a barbaric cousin of mob violence and the antithesis of state-sanctioned death penalties in the United States, with his book Rough Justice: Lynching and American Society, 1874-1947 (University of Illinois Press, August 2006).
Furthermore, as an illustration of the sort of chaos that ensues when a country has no government, Rosen describes the mob violence and the wanton destruction that can occur at any moment in Iraq.
Just before Christmas 2005, images of mob violence flashed across the world as gangs of white and Middle Eastern youths confronted each other on Sydney's beaches and streets.
 
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