Protests, Riots and Civil Unrest

There's a difference between being JAILED and IMPRISONED. Jailed can be 24 hours. Not so prison...prison is 6 months to life! THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of men and women were jailed for protesting Vietnam from the 60's into the 70's. It could've been an "over nighter" in the can (jail) or for 12 months. For draft dodging men: 22,000 men were indicted for draft evasion. 8,800 men were convicted, and approximately 4,000 men were imprisoned.

The colonists rejected the Stamp Act by holding protests. They also complained to their local government and various committees were formed to address the issue.

Boycotting

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose char­acter is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free People.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We hae reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpa­tions, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

• a man that didn't want to pay lots of money for taxes.

The First Amendment allows people to publicly demonstrate or protest what they want to apply.

The Haymarket Riot took place in Chicago in 1886. It was a protest by workers demanding an eight-hour workday, and it turned violent.

Southern and Northern Boycotts, Slave Acts that allowed headhunters to go intonorthern territory and capture escaped slaves, Kansas-Nebraska act, Unfair distribution of slave and free states, Raids on pr-slavery and anti-slavery farms

the food riots in Paris were in 1793

The Townshend Acts applied duties (taxes) to paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea imported by the colonies. Townshend had studied the colonist's distinction between internal and external taxes and he believed his duties were external as none of the products, except tea, could be made in the colonies. The colonists did not agree with his thinking and the result was a colonial boycott against British products. Trade between England and America fell off by 50 percent as a result of the boycott. The British merchants complained to Parliament who repealed the Townshend Duties except the tax on tea.

The general goal of the march was racial equality.

However, the march was put together by a handful of different groups, which had different goals. The stated purposes were the passage of meaningful civil rights legislation; the elimination of racial segregation in public schools; protection for demonstrators against police brutality; a major public-works program to provide jobs; the passage of a law prohibiting racial discrimination in public and private hiring; a $2 an hour minimum wage; and self-government for the District of Columbia,

The Vietnam War gave students purpose, and the anti-war sentiment encompassed many of the other movements as well (such as civil rights). It unified everyone.

LOS ANGELES.

The riots were in the words of Elanor Roosevelt "Race Riots" against Mexican Americans. She was correct despite the editorial position of the Los Angeles Times which called the First Lady a communist. It was a bad situation made much worse by assigning police officers to large bodies of soldiers and sailors on a rampage with orders not to arrest them for assault and battery or any other crime. The military put a stop to all shore leave and 12,000 Hispanics were rounded up and deported to Mexico.

only because the strike turned bloody, first the police fired on crowds, people threw bombs at large groups of policemen at the end of the day, several people on both sides lay dead so they blamed the labor orginization for it.

wanted to have a larger part in the government

He met with Truman and Congress

He planned a protest in front of the White House

The taxes were high and unfair and some of them were even meant to harm the colonists. They put heavy taxes on almost everything in the colonies to help pay off their French and Indian War debt. High taxes was one of the many causes of the Revolutionary War.

He worked behind the scenes to organize protests.

refusing to buy goods from Britain

Acts against the Vietnam War included demonstrating at a mass rally and joining an anti-war march.

The party that was formed was called the Whig Party.

Parties, usually based in a particular region, especially involving farmers, that protest against depressed economic conditions. These tend to disappear as conditions improve.

Parties rooted in pooreconomic times, lacking a clear ideological base, dissatisfied with current conditions and demanding better times.

I think it was to get independence from Great Britain.

== == * Some people felt that the U.S. should have minded their own business with the war in Vietnam going on. It cost many families their loved ones back in the U.S., and was the most controversial war and dishonored war in the history of the U.S. (which by the way was wrong.) The young soldiers going over to fight thought they were fighting for their country but were lied too, some used as guinea pigs with "Red/White Rain" (chemicals) and then snubbed and called baby killers when they returned home. They were not honored, but found it hard to even get jobs once home. Many were on drugs, and most have trauma and to this day are being treated for it. The hippy era had come with "Peace & Love" and fought for world peace and wanted the soldiers back home. Berkeley was having sit-ins and the army was called in and several students were killed. Freedom of speech and rights in the U.S. .... I don't think so!