ipl-logo

How Did The Demise Of The Regulators

849 Words4 Pages

The Regulators, like the Sons of Liberty fought the corruption of the government during the years that lead up to the American Revolution. However, unlike the Sons of Liberty, the Regulators did not use violence to get their points across. They resorted to removing corrupt government officials and electing their own leaders into office. From the very beginning, the Piedmont backcountry farmers from North Carolina suffered enormous opposition from the wealthy elites, as well as the Governor of North Carolina himself. It seemed that Governor William Tryon made it his goal in life to disband the Regulators, and in the end he was successful. The Battle of Alamance proved to be the ultimate demise for the Regulators. As a result, seven people from …show more content…

The term “regulator” was one of the reasons why the wealthy elites had it in for the organization. This term was first used in England in 1655, and it refers to someone appointed to adjust governmental malfunctioning (Kars, pg. 138). The Regulators themselves “were composed of religious radicals like Herman Husband, and they combined Whig political ideas with their spiritual convictions to argue that freedom of conscience required resistance to a corrupt government”(Kars, pg. 113). One of the ways the Regulators were forced to disband was the fact that the wealthy elites outnumbered Regulator supporters that were put in office. As a result, the people in office only passed laws that benefited the …show more content…

The Regulators only wanted to be heard, and therefore they wrote a letter which talked about the grievances that had been enacted against them. Herman Husband was a significantly important figure for the Regulators who was able to become elected as Orange County representative in July of 1769 (Kars, pg. 170). While he was a part of the government, he was unable to bring anything to fruition that would benefit the farmers. He was either voted against, or his petitions were not even addressed. During the time of the ratification of the Johnston Riot Act, the court was able to successfully expel Husband. In a plot that involved even Governor Tryon, an arrest warrant was issued for Husbands’ because of him being a “principle mover and promotor of the late Riots” (Kars, pg. 188). Furthermore, the wealthy elite used cunning ways to discourage farmers from bringing up petitions. One way that people were persuaded not to bring their grievances to court was because, “officials promised to countersue for “malicious prosecution”” (Kars, pg. 169). Additionally, “grand juries were filled with anti-Regulators” (Kars, pg.

Show More
Related
506 Words | 3 Pages

He challenged this assumption by arguing that historians and South Carolina officials had written the result of the Stono Rebellion in reverse. Many of the historians and officials had assumed that there was a competent conspiracy theory to rebel before the violence even erupted. Hoffer again disagreed with this assumption. After analyzing the many causes that could’ve started the rebellion, the author came across many shortcomings and deficiencies of the traditional conspiracy theories that many individuals believe caused the rebellion.

Read More
1002 Words | 5 Pages

The whiskey rebellion was a protest by many Americans who were against the new law that taxed whiskey. This law was put into place in 1791. The United States government was in debt from the war and they decided that taxing whiskey would slowly start eating away at Americas debt. George Washington was in his second year of presidency during 1791 although he wasn't the mastermind behind the whisky tax. Alexander Hamilton was the man behind this idea because he realized that Americans needed to do something to get out of their nearly eighty million dollars in debt they had accumulated from the war.

Read More
824 Words | 4 Pages

The Role of the Government Robber Barons and Transcendentalists were two prominent groups of people in the United States during the time period post Civil War. Transcendentalists are people who believe in the philosophy that our knowledge of reality comes from an analysis of our own thought processes, rather than from scientific evidence. People who make profit through corrupt or questionable means are considered Robber Barons. In the article Resistance to Civil Government, the author Henry David Thoreau wrote, “That government is best which governs least” (Thoreau). Both Transcendentalists and Robber Barons would agree with this quote.

Read More
318 Words | 2 Pages

Regulating the Regulators explores some of the conditions and events relating to the supervision and discipline of Ontario teachers in the nineteenth century. The chapter also examines the way in which the controls and structures were altered. In the beginning, the control of the schooling system resided with each individual community. This changed over time and by the 1870s the provincial state had assumed control and regulation of teaching and schooling alike. As a result, moral regulation became the overall purpose of the newly restructured schooling system and for this reason training for teachers was then closely managed.

Read More
1537 Words | 7 Pages

Mariam Saif History of the United States Professor Zachary Bennett October 6, 2015 Paper 1 Final Draft Blame it on the Guilt It was once said that “a guilty conscience does not need an accuser”, that a man who has wronged someone does not need to be told so and no matter how much he consciously denies it, his mind knows. This is exactly the case when it comes to the New York Conspiracy Trials of 1741. There has been much speculation through the years on these trials and whether or not there ever was a conspiracy to overthrow the white supremacists, but sadly, there hasn’t been a single strand of evidence. In fact, the only facts that we have when it comes to this case is that there is no facts; everything is speculation.

Read More
716 Words | 3 Pages

For instance, the farmers in central North Carolina resented the actions of local court officials. This feeling was particularly strong in Ansons, Granville, Halifax, Orange, and Rowan counties (The Regulator Movement). Efforts to reform the “assessment of taxes and fees were unsuccessful; the courts and assembly were not responsive and seemed to favor the causes of the wealthy tidewater elements. Regulator groups arose to close down local courts and suppress tax payments” (The Regulator Movement).

Read More
588 Words | 3 Pages

Monopolies in Industry The government should break up Standard Oil’s monopoly. “Industry in the late 1800s was dominated by trusts. Successful trusts became monopolies, which had negative effects on workers and consumers.

Read More
678 Words | 3 Pages

The government was following the 10th Amendment which says that the government can only do what is listed in the Constitution. Rockefeller’s monopoly was one example of a time when our country was gradually becoming more hands on in terms of becoming involved in the affairs of businesses. The reason why our government didn’t want to be to involved in the affairs of people and businesses was since our country did not want to run a government similar to the way that Britain did. Businesses took advantage and did what they wanted. Company strikes took place because of unfair treatment towards workers.

Read More
1054 Words | 5 Pages

Most of their war was peaceful, yet the Regulators did resort to violence on occasion. In 1770 in response to having their peaceful request ignored, they forcefully entered the Hillsborough Supreme Court where they attacked lawyers, threw the judge off the bench, and proceeded to have a court session of their own. Governor Tryon then passed the Johnston Riot Act, in an attempt to subdue the regulators from making another march to Hillsborough, which allowed for military intervention in the case of a riot. Regulators eventually encountered a military force on their way to Hillsborough at Alamance Creek where the trained troops overpowered the under matched rebels. The Regulator movement was over, but their mentality towards freedom carried over to the provincial congress and later the state

Read More
147 Words | 1 Pages

A major political issue in the Age of Industry was currency. One political sect that was influential with the state of the nation’s currency was the Grange, an organized group of farmers founded by Oliver Kelley. The Grange contested for increased circulation of greenbacks, which increased inflation, thereby increasing prices of sold goods. However, the farmers did not realize that inflation would also increase prices of purchased goods.

Read More
849 Words | 4 Pages

Around the time of these protests Americans were beginning to realize their rights as citizens and what their ideal government looked like. Settlers of the backcountry were rebelling against the federalists, attempting to acquire more representation in the government. The people of the backcountry were becoming more oppressed as Alexander Hamilton began to attempt to improve America’s economy with manufacturing and revenue taxes. The backcountry settlers organized violent protests, three of these rebellions being Shays’ Rebellion, Whiskey Rebellion, and March of the Paxton Boys.

Read More
1121 Words | 5 Pages

In a capitalist environment, at least where corporations have been concerned, the government should neither intervene or regulate the open market. In fact, the essence of the capitalist economic system is to create an environment where the free market would be able to dictate itself. Regardless of the system’s original intentions, there have been cases globally and throughout time where government intervention has been necessary — cases where the general public itself has been affected negatively by corporate abuse of the market. For instance, the United States’ public-corporate relationship throughout the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Throughout this period, which was known as the Progressive Era, industrial America

Read More
675 Words | 3 Pages

The law is created to govern, not to undermine, and Twelve Angry Men uses economic, social, and cultural factors to portray this to the

Read More
195 Words | 1 Pages

In the very beginning, utilities were not regulated. Early utilities would often compete for the same customers including building duplicate distribution systems. Competition was greatest in densely populated urban areas where more people are likely to use power. At first, municipalities stepped in, regulating the number of utilities, requiring universal service, and restricting each utility to service in specific areas of town to avoid the construction of duplicate systems. Since state regulation was not sufficient to control the action of interstate holding companies headquartered out of state, Congress passed the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 (also known as Wheeler-Rayburn Act).

Read More
1170 Words | 5 Pages

Their ability to revolt, to be the needed first one to speak out, comes from this distinct knowledge they have; leaders of rebellions must be well informed in order to properly assess the impending consequences of their

Read More

More about How Did The Demise Of The Regulators

Related Topics

Open Document