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Riot
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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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