...as the government was growing stronger, but all of these events have acts of opposition on newly imposed laws and taxes, government actions, and the nation’s needs. Settlers in the eighteenth-century American backcountry sometimes resorted to violent protest to express their grievances through significant protests like the march of the Paxton boys in Pennsylvania, Shays’ Rebellion supporting the need for a strong government, and the Whiskey Rebellion opposing the new whiskey tax. One significant violent protest settlers in the eighteenth-century resorted to in order to express their grievances was the march of the Paxton boys which occurred in Pennsylvania...
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...During the late eighteenth century, the movement of settlers in the backcountry created political, intellectual, and social influences. The Paxton Boys were Scots-Irish who formed a vigilante group to retaliate in 1763 against local American Indians in the aftermath of the French and Indian War and Pontiac's Rebellion. The group of Paxton men raided a small settlement of Conestoga Indians in Lancaster County. The natives had long lived in peace with their neighbors and had not participated in any way in the current uprising. Six Indians were killed in the attack and fourteen taken captive; all of the prisoners were murdered several weeks later. The Paxton Boys are examples of social and intellectual effects. The Regulator Movement, strongest in Orange, Granville, Halifax, and Anson counties were led by small farmers protesting the corruption and extortionate practices of sheriffs and court officials. The farmers first petitioned the assembly to recall its officers and when this failed, they formed an association pledged to pay only legal taxes and fees and to abide by the will of the majority. The Regulators won control of the provincial assembly in 1769, but with the provincial council, Governor William Tryon, and the courts against them they were unable to secure...
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...Frontiermen during the eighteenth century created social, political, and economic issues in their rebellious protest. The Paxton Boys were a group of people who lived on the frontier, who were formed to respond to the fear of Native Americans spreading throughout America during the time of the French and Indian War. In fact, the Paxton Boys were a Rebellion to the Pontiac Rebellion. The Paxton Boys carried out many rebellious acts which were unprosecuted. Therefore, the Conestoga Massacre is a result of the Paxton Boys. The Conestoga Massacre occurred because of arguments over land, the massacre also occurred because Natives felt like they were being mistreated by white settlers. Native Americans carried out the various attack against the white settlers which made the settlers fearful. The Regulator movement was a movement that...
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