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The Southern bread riots were events of civil unrest in the Confederacy during the American Civil War, perpetrated mostly by women in March and April 1863...

tax riots, in UK 1990 Rebellion Riot Acts, in UK law Riot gun Southern bread riots, Confederacy 1863 Stonewall riots, New York City 1969 Student riot Tulsa...

The Boston bread riot was the last of a series of three riots by the poor of Boston in Massachusetts Bay Colony between 1710 and 1713, in response to food...

buildings to attain staple foods such as bread, grain, or salt, as in the 1977 Egyptian bread riots. Historically, food riots are part of a larger social movement...

1847. Southern bread riots – events of civil unrest in the Confederacy, perpetrated mostly by women in March and April 1863. During these riots, which...

The Tunisian bread riots (French: émeutes du pain, Arabic: أحداث الخبز) were a series of violent demonstrations in Tunisia that occurred from December...

The Egyptian "bread riots" of 1977 (Arabic: إنتِفاضة الخُبز, intifāḍhat-ul-khobz, “The Bread Intifada”) were a spontaneous uprising against the increase...

for many years but which was wildly unpopular in the colonies, producing riots and organized resistance. Hancock initially took a moderate position: as...

reflected in a series of demonstrations and riots through the 1700s. One such example, the Mast Tree Riot, occurred 1734 in what is now Fremont, New Hampshire...

Tally's War/Skunk River War, Keokuk County, Iowa 1863 – Southern bread riots, April 2, Riots which broke out in the South during the Civil War due to...

Philadelphia nativist riots took place on May 6—8 and July 6—7, 1844, in Philadelphia, and the adjacent suburbs of Kensington and Southwark. The riots were a result...

Hillsbough, NC. They rioted through the town for several days. In response in January of 1771 the North Carolina assembly passed the Johnston Riot Act, allowing...

a Southern State (2nd ed. U of North Carolina Press, 1963) pp. 161–178. online William A. Link, North Carolina: Change and Tradition in a Southern State...

ISSN 0043-5597. JSTOR 1915726. Cooper, William J., Liberty and Slavery: Southern Politics to 1860, Univ of South Carolina Press, 2001, p. 9. "Ann Cotton...

Philadelphia nativist riots (also known as the Philadelphia Prayer Riots, the Bible Riots and the Native American Riots) were a series of riots that took place...

Know-Nothing Riot (1857) New Orleans Know-Nothing Riot (1858) John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (1859) Morrisite War (1862) Southern bread riots (1863)...

The New York City draft riots (July 13–16, 1863), sometimes referred to as the Manhattan draft riots and known at the time as Draft Week, were violent...

killed during the riot on July 4, 1857, in New York City's Lower East Side.[citation needed] New York City draft riots Orange Riots History of New York...

emissaries") were instigating treason among citizens. Adams helped draw up a Riot Act and a resolution suspending habeas corpus so the authorities could legally...

because the captain of Romney had been impressing local sailors; they began to riot, and customs officials fled to Castle William for protection. Daniel Calfe...