Regulator Movement

The Regulator Movement in North Carolina, also known as the Regulator Insurrection, War of Regulation, and War of the Regulation, was an uprising in Provincial North Carolina from 1766 to 1771 in which citizens took up arms against colonial officials who they viewed as corrupt. Historians such as John Spencer Bassett argue that the Regulators did not wish to change the form or principle of their government, but simply wanted to make the colony's political process more equal. They wanted better economic conditions for everyone, instead of a system that heavily benefited the colonial officials and their network of plantation owners mainly near the coast. Bassett interprets the events of the late 1760s in Orange and surrounding counties as "...a peasants' rising, a popular upheaval."

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1766 — 1771  Wikidata
Regulator Insurrection; War of Regulation; War of the Regulation; †
rebellion, Kingdom of Great Britain, 

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Type	Subtype	Date	Description	Notes	Source
event	armed conflict	1766	Regulator Movement	rebellion, Kingdom of Great Britain	Wikidata