Proclamation of Rebellion

Examples of Proclamation of Rebellion in the following topics:

• Pursuing Both War and Peace

  • The petition was rejected, and in August 1775, A Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition (or the Proclamation of Rebellion) formally declared that the colonies were in rebellion.
  • The Proclamation of Rebellion was written before the Olive Branch Petition reached the British.
  • In August 1775, upon learning of the Battle of Bunker Hill, King George III issued a Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition.
  • On October 26, 1775, King George III expanded on the Proclamation of Rebellion in his Speech from the Throne at the opening of Parliament.
  • The Proclamation of Rebellion was King George III's response to the Olive Branch Petition.

• The First Emancipation

  • Lord Dunmore's Proclamation was the first mass emancipation of enslaved people in United States history.
  • In November 1775 Lord Dunmore, Royal Governor of Virginia, issued a controversial proclamation, later known as Lord Dunmore's Proclamation.
  • Faced with rebellion and short of troops, Virginia's royal governor called on all able-bodied men to assist him in the defense of the colony, including enslaved Africans belonging to rebels.
  • Dunmore's Proclamation was the first mass emancipation of enslaved people in United States history.
  • The Earl of Dunmore issued a proclamation offering freedom to all slaves who would leave their masters and fight on behalf of Britain during the Revolutionary War.

• The Second American Revolution

  • These Democrats felt that Lincoln's nomination in 1860 threatened the institution of slavery; they also opposed the Republican goals of enacting a tariff for the protection of industry and granting free homesteads to settlers who would aid in the opening of the West.
  • On January 1, 1863, Lincoln proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states then in rebellion with the Emancipation Proclamation.
  • Historians would later characterize the Civil War as the fulfillment of the Declaration of Independence's promise that "all men are created equal. "
  • The collapse of the Southern plantation economy aided the national shift toward industry and wage labor, as did the Morrill Tariff, which encouraged the growth of domestic manufacturing.
  • Explain why Southerners viewed the Confederate States of America's claim to independence as part of the tradition of the American Revolution

• Union Politics

  • On September 22 of that year, Lincoln issued a preliminary proclamation that he would order the emancipation of all slaves within all Confederate states that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863.
  • When none of the states returned to the Union by that date, Lincoln honored his proclamation, and the order immediately took effect.
  • Predictably, the Confederates were initially outraged by the Emancipation Proclamation and used it as further justification for their rebellion.
  • The Proclamation was also immediately denounced by Copperhead Democrats, a more extreme wing of the Northern Democratic faction of the Democratic Party that opposed the war and hoped to restore the Union peacefully via federal acceptance of the institution of slavery.
  • Additionally, these Democrats viewed the Proclamation as an unconstitutional abuse of Presidential power.

• African Americans in the Military

  • African-American soldiers comprised 10 percent of the Union Army, with recruitment beginning following the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
  • It freed slaves of owners in rebellion against the United States, and a militia act empowered the president to use freed slaves in any capacity in the army.
  • In September 1862, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, announcing that all slaves in rebellious states would be free as of January 1, 1863.
  • Recruitment of "colored" regiments began in full force following the Proclamation.
  • The attitude within the Confederacy toward Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was very negative, with many calling for the trial of any Union soldiers captured as slave insurrectionists, an offense punishable by death.

• Emancipation

  • It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the 10 states then in rebellion, applying to 3.1 million of the 4 million slaves in the United States at that time.
  • The Proclamation immediately freed 50,000 slaves, with nearly all of the rest of the 3.1 million freed as Union armies advanced.
  • On September 22, 1862, Lincoln issued a preliminary proclamation that he would order the emancipation of all slaves in any state of the Confederate States of America that did not return to Union control by January 1, 1863.
  • The Proclamation made abolition a central goal of the war, outraged white Southerners who foresaw in the Proclamation the potential for race wars, angered some Northern Democrats, energized antislavery forces, and weakened resolve among Europeans who wanted to intervene to aid the Confederacy.
  • Hundreds of thousands of German Americans volunteered to fight for the Union.

• Pontiac's Uprising

  • British expansion into American Indian land after the French and Indian War led to resistance in the form of Pontiac's Rebellion in 1763.
  • Despite previous rumors of war, Pontiac's Rebellion began in 1763.
  • While the rebellion was decentralized at first, this fear of being surrounded helped the rebellion to grow.
  • The total loss of life resulting from Pontiac's Rebellion is unknown.
  • On October 7, 1763, the Crown issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, an effort to reorganize British North America after the Treaty of Paris.

• Discontent on the Frontier

  • Colonial relations with American Indian tribes were severely tested following the events of Pontiac's Rebellion and the Conestoga Massacre.
  • The British government sought to prevent further violence by issuing the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which created a boundary between colonists and Native Americans.
  • Some Indians welcomed this policy, believing that the separation of the races would allow them to resume their traditional lifestyles; others realized that the proclamation, at best, would only provide some breathing room before the next onslaught of settlers.
  • Almost immediately, many British colonists and land speculators objected to the proclamation boundary, since there were already many settlements beyond the line, some of which had been temporarily evacuated during Pontiac's War, as well as many existing land claims yet to be settled.
  • Indeed, the proclamation itself called for lands to be granted to British soldiers who had served in the Seven Years' War.

• Confederate Diplomacy

  • Moreover, abolitionist sentiment, ascendant in Europe, was mobilized on behalf of the Union by President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
  • The United States government considered the Southern states to be in rebellion and refused to grant formal recognition of the Confederacy as a sovereign state.
  • The Union maintained that the Confederacy was a rebellion rather than a legitimate government throughout the war.
  • In fact, the U.S. government never actually declared war on the Confederacy, instead merely expressing a need to recapture federal forts and suppress an ongoing rebellion, as in Lincoln's proclamation on April 15, 1861.
  • Lincoln's calls for troops referenced an “insurrection” or “rebellion” rather than war with a hostile nation.

• The Whiskey Rebellion

  • The Whiskey Rebellion (1791-1794), a tax protest, was a defining moment of federal triumph over civil unrest and protest.
  • The Whiskey Rebellion, or Whiskey Insurrection, was a tax protest in the United States beginning in 1791, during the presidency of George Washington that directly challenged the federal government's right to levy taxes.
  • Washington and Hamilton believed that the Whiskey Rebellions proved that the pro-French, radical Democratic-Republican Societies, which had been formed throughout the country in the wake of the French Revolution were the source of such civic unrest and were manipulating mobs of people to rebel against federal authority.
  • On August 7, Washington issued a presidential proclamation announcing, with "the deepest regret", that the militia would be called out to suppress the rebellion .
  • The insurrection collapsed as the army marched into western Pennsylvania in October 1794, with most of the rebellion's leaders either fleeing or being captured.