The Lombard Street riot was a three-day race riot in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1842. The riot was the last in a 13-year period marked by frequent...
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(Philadelphia), Pennsylvania See also Lombard Street riot Lombard Street (Portland, Oregon), part of US 30 Bypass Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market...
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Robert Purvis (section Lombard Street riot)
accessed December 30, 2012. Historical Society of Pennsylvania, "Lombard Street Riots", Philaplace.org; accessed August 15, 2012. "NOMINATION OF HISTORIC...
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against the Irish, and eventually led up to riots, such as the Philadelphia nativist riots and the Lombard Street riot. Eventually the Irish gained financial...
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The Pine Tree Riot was an act of resistance to British royal authority undertaken by American colonists in Weare, New Hampshire, on April 14, 1772, placing...
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riot of 1861 (also called the "Pratt Street Riots" and the "Pratt Street Massacre") was a civil conflict on Friday, April 19, 1861, on Pratt Street,...
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Boston Massacre (redirect from 1770 Boston riot)
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...
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anti-abolitionists Lombard Street riot, an 1842 riot where black freemen were attacked by an Irish Catholic mob Philadelphia nativist riots, in May and June...
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The doctors' riot was an incident that occurred in April 1788 in New York City, where the illegal procurement of corpses from the graves of the recently...
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civil unrest in the United States Lombard Street riot, of 1842 1964 Philadelphia race riot Philadelphia Election riot, of 1742 Lewis Charles Levin Church...
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The Dead Rabbits riot was a two-day civil disturbance in New York City evolving from what was originally a small-scale street fight between members of...
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The Broad Street Riot was a massive brawl that occurred in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 11, 1837, between Irish Americans and Yankee firefighters. An...
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John Hancock (redirect from Liberty Riot)
not just deserters from the Royal Navy, an arguably illegal activity. A riot broke out when officials began to tow the Liberty out to the Romney, which...
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The Portland Rum Riot, also called the Maine Law Riot, and the June Riot by Neal Dow, was a brief but violent period of civil unrest that occurred in...
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1841 – Cincinnati Riots of 1841, early September, Cincinnati, Ohio (race riot) 1842 – Lombard Street Riot, (a.k.a. the Abolition Riots), August 1, Philadelphia...
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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...
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Street between the rival parties. Election day October 8, 1856, was marked with violence in twenty city wards in Baltimore. Democrats incited a riot in...
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The term Know-Nothing Riot has been used to refer to a number of political uprisings of the Know Nothing Party in the United States of the mid-19th century...
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The Astor Place Riot occurred on May 10, 1849, at the now-demolished Astor Opera House in Manhattan and left between 22 and 31 rioters dead, and more than...
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Hillsborough, NC. They rioted through the town for several days. In response in January 1771 the North Carolina assembly passed the Johnston Riot Act, allowing...
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1842 – Plug Plot Riots (England) 1842 – Lombard Street riot (Philadelphia, United States) 1844 – Beer riots in Bavaria (Bavaria, independent at the time...
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which outlawed disguises. Trials of leaders of the revolt, charged with riot, conspiracy and robbery, were held in 1845 with Amasa J. Parker presiding...
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initially refused to yield to the pressure, rushing out to meet Bacon in the street and declaring him a traitor. When Bacon had his men take aim at Berkeley...
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Cincinnati riots of 1841 (Cincinnati) 1842: Lombard Street Riot, (a.k.a. the Abolition Riots), August 1, Philadelphia 1842: Muncy Abolition riot of 1842...
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The Lager Beer Riot occurred on April 21, 1855 in Chicago, Illinois, and was the first major civil disturbance in the city. Mayor Levi Boone, a Nativist...
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antiabolitionist riot (also called Farren Riot or Tappan Riot) that lasted for nearly a week until it was put down by military force. "At times the rioters controlled...
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Philadelphia race riot (1834) Destruction of Pennsylvania Hall (1838) Buckshot War (1838) Lombard Street riot (1842) Muncy Abolition riot of 1842 Philadelphia...
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admonished were the methods Tryon had used to win the battle. The use of a riot act and the execution of rebellion leaders after the battle was frowned upon...
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The eggnog riot, sometimes known as the grog mutiny, was a riot that took place at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, on 24–25...
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office. Philadelphia Election Riot (1742) Lombard Street Riot (1842) – Three-day race riot. Philadelphia Nativist Riots (1844) The Schuylkill Rangers...
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