Top 20 Times Americans Rebelled Against Their Government

The open resistance of orders by an established authority, rebellions are an integral part of the American national story. Fashioned out of a successful revolt of its own making against Great Britain, perhaps due to this incendiary birth the United States of America retained a proclivity for rebellion. Although such intense passions for insurrection have dissipated in recent decades, the early history of the young American nation remains littered with incidents of popular rebellion that have, with the exception of the most extreme or impactful, been largely forgotten to history.

Here are 20 times Americans rebelled against their own government: