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    Hard Scrabble (Addison Hollow) and Snow Town were two African American neighborhoods located in Providence, Rhode Island in the nineteenth century. They...
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  • Virginia, now Scrabble, West Virginia Hardscrabble or Hard Scrabble, Wisconsin, now Hazel Green (town), Wisconsin Hard Scrabble and Snow Town, two African-American...
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  • 1823: Nativist launch raid on Irish neighborhood, (Boston) 1824: Hard Scrabble and Snow Town Riots, 1824 & 1831 respectively, Providence, Rhode Island 1826:...
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    Providence, Rhode Island (category Port cities and towns of the United States Atlantic coast)
    and French Canada. These economic and demographic shifts caused social strife. Hard Scrabble and Snow Town were the sites of race riots in 1824 and 1831...
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    and French Canada. These economic and demographic shifts caused social strife. Hard Scrabble and Snow Town were the sites of race riots in 1824 and 1831...
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  • List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States (category Riots and civil disorder in the United States)
    riots, these took place shortly before the War of 1812 1824 – Hard Scrabble and Snow Town Riots, 1824 & 1831 respectively, Providence, RI (race riots)...
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    The Snow Riot was a riot and lynch mob in Washington, D.C., that began on August 11, 1835, when a mob of angry white mechanics attacked and destroyed...
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    "Scratch Ankle" (due to the briars that grew along the riverbank), and "Hard Scrabble." According to Florida historian Allen Morris, "Just which Milton...
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  • then cut off the ears and shaved the manes and tails of the horses, after which Whiting and Quigley were forced to ride out of town through a gauntlet of...
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    Baltimore Know-Nothing riots of 1856 (category Riots and civil disorder in Baltimore)
    strongly nativist. Baltimore was given the nickname "Mob-Town" because of a longer history of rioting and a poorly staffed police force that did little to stop...
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    Know-Nothing Riots in United States politics (category Riots and civil disorder in Missouri)
    and New York City in 1857; and New Orleans in 1858. The Philadelphia nativist riots took place on May 6—8 and July 6—7, 1844, in Philadelphia, and the...
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    Anti-Rent War (category Tarring and feathering in the United States)
    between 1839 and 1845. The Anti-Renters declared their independence from the manor system run by patroons, resisting tax collectors and successfully demanding...
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    Marais des Cygnes massacre (category American anti-abolitionist riots and civil disorder)
    Georgia native and proslavery leader, crossed into the Kansas Territory from Missouri. They arrived at Trading Post, Kansas, in the morning and then headed...
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    Whipple and John Brown I attacked, boarded, and burned the Gaspee to the waterline. The event sharply increased tensions between American colonists and Crown...
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    issues of taxation and local control. Named for nearby Great Alamance Creek, the battle took place in what was then Orange County and has since become Alamance...
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    Portland Rum Riot (category Riots and civil disorder in Maine)
    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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  • Battle of Osawatomie (category Riots and civil disorder in Kansas)
    town of Osawatomie, Kansas, which had been settled largely by anti-slavery Free-Staters. Reid was intent on destroying the Free-State settlement and then...
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    Rebellion and, in Pennsylvania German, the Heesses-Wasser Uffschtand, was an armed tax revolt among Pennsylvania Dutch farmers between 1799 and 1800. It...
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    Dead Rabbits riot (category Riots and civil disorder in New York City)
    Simeon Draper, and marched in close formation towards the mob. After hard fighting, they cleared the streets, forcing both the Dead Rabbits and the Bowery...
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    Sacking of Lawrence (category Riots and civil disorder in Kansas)
    led by Douglas County Sheriff Samuel J. Jones, attacked and ransacked Lawrence, Kansas, a town that had been founded by anti-slavery settlers from Massachusetts...
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  • Horrible Histories is a children's live-action historical and musical sketch-comedy TV series based on the book series of the same name written by Terry...
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  • the Century (1969–73; 1983–89) Say When!! (1961–65) Scattergories (1993) Scrabble (1984–90; 1993) Shoot for the Stars (1977) Showdown (1966) The Singing...
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  • Pottawatomie massacre (category Riots and civil disorder in Kansas)
    Doyle whose life I begged of (you) is now grown up and is very desirous to be at Charleston [Charles Town] on the day of your execution would certainly be...
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    Dorr Rebellion (category Battles and conflicts without fatalities)
    the state, and was sentenced in 1844 to solitary confinement and hard labor for life. The harshness of the sentence was widely condemned, and Dorr was released...
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  • contains 2504 video game titles released for Classic Mac OS (1 through 9.2.2) and macOS 10 or higher). Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q...
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  • 1834 Philadelphia race riot (category Riots and civil disorder in Philadelphia)
    African Americans living in the area, began on the evening of August 12 and lasted for several days, dying down by August 14. The riot took place during...
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  • supporting the Quaker dissenters against Glover and also espousing the regional interests of the town of Bath, on the Pamlico Sound against the Albemarle...
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    Lager Beer Riot (category Riots and civil disorder in Chicago)
    system "was modeled on the colonial and English systems." Lacking any distinction of their own, elected town constables and night watchmen contributed to the...
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  • in the shape of a Scrabble board for a client's mother; a gumball machine cake with real gumballs inside for a bat mitzvah party; and a birthday cake in...
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  • bonding with her with playing games (like reverse-strip poker, paintball, scrabble, and snowball fights, which he always seems to lose) with her; this seems...
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